ArticleEvolution; international journal of organic evolution2016
Delayed dispersal and the costs and benefits of different routes to independent breeding in a cooperatively breeding bird.
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- Who listens to mother? A whole-family perspective on the evolution of maternal hormone allocation.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2021Review
- Breeders that receive help age more slowly in a cooperatively breeding bird.Nature communications · 2019Article
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- Adult sex ratios and their implications for cooperative breeding in birds.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Review
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Abstract
Why sexually mature individuals stay in groups as nonreproductive subordinates is central to the evolution of sociality and cooperative breeding. To understand such delayed dispersal, its costs and benefits need to be compared with those of permanently leaving to float through the population. However, comprehensive comparisons, especially regarding differences in future breeding opportunities, are rare. Moreover, extraterritorial prospecting by philopatric individuals has generally been ignored, even though the factors underlying this route to independent breeding may differ from those of strict philopatry or floating. We use a comprehensive predictive framework to explore how various costs, benefits and intrinsic, environmental and social factors explain philopatry, prospecting, and floating in Seychelles warblers (Acrocephalus sechellensis). Not only floaters more likely obtained an independent breeding position before the next season than strictly philopatric individuals, but also suffered higher mortality. Prospecting yielded similar benefits to floating but lower mortality costs, suggesting that it is overall more beneficial than floating and strict philopatry. While prospecting is probably individual-driven, although limited by resource availability, floating likely results from eviction by unrelated breeders. Such differences in proximate and ultimate factors underlying each route to independent breeding highlight the need for simultaneous consideration when studying the evolution of delayed dispersal.
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