Variation in clutch size in relation to nest size in birds

Ecology and Evolution

Anders P. Møller⁵⁷  Frank Adriaensen¹³  Alexandr Artemyev³⁶  Jerzy Baᑋura¹⁶  Emilio Barba⁴⁴  Clotilde Biard³⁰  Jacques Blondel²⁶  Zihad Bouslama¹⁴  Jean-Charles Bouvier²⁷  Jordi Camprodon^50,57  Francesco Cecere^53,57  Anne Charmantier²⁶  Motti Charter^9,57  Mariusz Cichoń^33,57  Camillo Cusimano^37,57  Dorota Czeszczewik^40,57  Virginie Demeyrier²⁶  Blandine Doligez^22,57  Claire Doutrelant²⁶  Anna Dubiec^43,57  Marcel Eens^56,57  Tapio Eeva^48,57  Bruno Faivre^13,20  Peter N. Ferns^12,13  Jukka T. Forsman^13,46  Eduardo García-Del-Rey^13,34  Aya Goldshtein^9,57  Anne E. Goodenough^13,31  Andrew G. Gosler^13,58  Iga Góឭź^13,54  Arnaud Grégoire²⁶  Lars Gustafsson^4,13  Ian R. Hartley^13,55  Philipp Heeb^13,32  Shelley A. Hinsley^36,39  Paul Isenmann²⁶  Staffan Jacob^13,32  Antero Järvinen^11,36  Rimvydas Juškaitis^36,60  Erkki Korpimäki^48,57  Indrikis Krams^24,36  Toni Laaksonen^48,57  Bernard Leclercq^17,36  Esa Lehikoinen^48,57  Olli Loukola^13,46  Arne Lundberg^21,36  Mark C. Mainwaring^13,55  Raivo Mänd^1,36  Bruno Massa^37,57  Tomasz D. Mazgajski^13,54  Santiago Merino^5,36  Cezary Mitrus^15,36  Mikko Mönkkönen^28,36  Judith Morales-Fernaz^16,51  Xavier Morin^16,35  Ruedi G. Nager^16,41  Jan-Åke Nilsson^16,38  Sven G. Nilsson^16,47  Ana C. Norte^10,16  Markku Orell^13,46  Philippe Perret²⁶  Carla S. Pimentel^16,61  Rianne Pinxten^56,57  Ilze Priedniece^16,45  Marie-Claude Quidoz²⁶  Vladimir Remeš^16,59  Heinz Richner^16,42  Hugo Robles^3,44  Seppo Rytkönen^13,46  Juan Carlos Senar^6,44  Janne T. Seppänen^29,44  Luís P. da Silva^7,44  Tore Slagsvold^2,44  Tapio Solonen^25,44  Alberto Sorace^23,44  Martyn J. Stenning^18,44  János Török^44,49  Piotr Tryjanowski^19,44  Arie J. van Noordwijk^30,52  Mikael von Numers^8,30  Wiesᐪw Walankiewicz^40,57 

[1] Department of Zoology, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia;Department of Biology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway;Falculty of Sciences, Evolutionary Ecology Group (GIBE), University of A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain;Department of Animal Ecology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC, Madrid, Spain;Unidad Asociada CSIC de Ecología Evolutiva y de la Conducta, Nat-Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain;Department Life Science, IMAR CMA, University Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal;Environmental and Marine Biology, Åbo Akademi University, Biocity, Åbo, Finland;University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel;Department of Life Sciences, Institute of Marine Research, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal;University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland;School of Bioscience, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK;Evolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium;Research Laboratory “Ecology of Terrestrial and Aquatic Systems”, University Badji Mokhtar, Annaba, Algeria;Department of Zoology, Rzeszów University, Rzeszów, Poland;Department of Experimental Zoology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Łodź, Łodź, Poland;Crx. St. Pierre, Fleurey Sur Ouche, France;School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, Sussex, U.K;Institute of Zoology, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poznań, Poland;Université de Bourgogne, UMR CNRS 5561, BioGéoSciences, Dijon, France;Department of Ecology & Evolution, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;Univ Lyon 1, Department of Biometry & Evolutionary Biology, CNRS UMR 5558, Villeurbanne, France;SROPU, Rome, Italy;Institute of Ecology & Earth Sciences, University Tartu, Tartu, Estonia;Luontotutkimus Solonen Oy, Helsinki, Finland;Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, CEFE UMR 5175, Montpellier Cedex 5, France;INRA, UR 1115, Plantes et Systèmes de culture Horticoles, Avignon, France;Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland;Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland;Laboratoire Ecologie-Evolution, UMR 7625, Equipe Ecophysiologie Evolutive - Evolutionary Ecophysiology Research Group, Université Pierre et Marie Curie – UPMC, Paris Cedex 05, France;Department of Natural and Social Sciences, University of Gloucestershire, U.K;Laboratoire Évolution & Diversité Biologique, UPS Toulouse III, Bât 4R1, salle 122, Toulouse, France;Institution of Environment Science, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland;Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna, Spain;Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Campus CNRS, Montpellier Cedex 5, France;Russian Academy of Sciences, Karelian Research Centre, Instition of Biology, Petrozavodsk, Russia;Stazione Inanellamento c/o Dipartimento SEN-FIMIZO, Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy;Ecology Building, Animal Ecology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden;CEH Wallingford, Oxfordshire, U.K;Department of Zoology, Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities, Siedlce, Poland;Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, U.K;Institute of Ecology & Evolution (IEE), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland;Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland;Terrestrial Vertebrates Research Unit “Cavanilles”, Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, Paterna, Spain;Latvian Fund for Nature, Riga, Latvia;Department of Biology, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland;Department of Biology, Biodiversity, Lund University, Lund, Sweden;Section of Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland;Behavioral Ecology Group, Department of Systematic Zoology & Ecology, Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary;Àrea de Biodiversitat, Grup de Biologia de la Conservació, Centre Tecnològic Forestal de Catalunya, Solsona, Spain;Ecología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid, Spain;Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, the Netherlands;Strada Bine, Acquanegra sul Chiese (MM), Italy;Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland;Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, U.K;Campus Drie Eiken, Department of Biology (Ethology), Antwerp (Wilrijk), Belgium;Laboratoire Ecologie, Systematique et Evolution, UMR 8079 CNRS-Université Paris-Sud XI-AgroParisTech, Orsay Cedex, France;Department of Zoology, Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology & Institute of Human Sciences, Oxford, U.K;Laboratory of Ornithology, Department of Zoology, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic;Institute of Ecology of Nature Research Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania;Centro de Estudos Florestais, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

关键词: Hole nesting;    natural holes;    nest boxes;    reaction norm;   

DOI  :  10.1002/ece3.1189

来源: Wiley

【 摘 要 】

Abstract

Nests are structures built to support and protect eggs and/or offspring from predators, parasites, and adverse weather conditions. Nests are mainly constructed prior to egg laying, meaning that parent birds must make decisions about nest site choice and nest building behavior before the start of egg-laying. Parent birds should be selected to choose nest sites and to build optimally sized nests, yet our current understanding of clutch size-nest size relationships is limited to small-scale studies performed over short time periods. Here, we quantified the relationship between clutch size and nest size, using an exhaustive database of 116 slope estimates based on 17,472 nests of 21 species of hole and non-hole-nesting birds. There was a significant, positive relationship between clutch size and the base area of the nest box or the nest, and this relationship did not differ significantly between open nesting and hole-nesting species. The slope of the relationship showed significant intraspecific and interspecific heterogeneity among four species of secondary hole-nesting species, but also among all 116 slope estimates. The estimated relationship between clutch size and nest box base area in study sites with more than a single size of nest box was not significantly different from the relationship using studies with only a single size of nest box. The slope of the relationship between clutch size and nest base area in different species of birds was significantly negatively related to minimum base area, and less so to maximum base area in a given study. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that bird species have a general reaction norm reflecting the relationship between nest size and clutch size. Further, they suggest that scientists may influence the clutch size decisions of hole-nesting birds through the provisioning of nest boxes of varying sizes.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© 2014 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.