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ArticleJournal of ornithology2018

Fecal sacs do not increase nest predation in a ground nester.

Enrique Rubio, Olivia Sanllorente, B Irene Tieleman, Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo

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Article in Journal of ornithology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors.

Enrique RubioGroningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, 9700 CC Groningen, The Netherlands.
Olivia SanllorenteGroningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, 9700 CC Groningen, The Netherlands.
B Irene TielemanGroningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, 9700 CC Groningen, The Netherlands.
Juan Diego Ibáñez-ÁlamoGroningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, 9700 CC Groningen, The Netherlands.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most altricial birds remove their nestlings' feces from the nest, but the evolutionary forces driving this behavior are poorly understood. A possible adaptive explanation for this could be that birds avoid the attraction of nest predators to their nests due to the visual or olfactory cues produced by feces (nest predation hypothesis). This hypothesis has received contrasting support indicating that additional experimental studies are needed, particularly with respect to the visual component of fecal sacs. To test this hypothesis, we conducted an experiment manipulating the presence of fecal sacs on inactive Woodlark (

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Lullula arboreaNest concealmentNest predation hypothesisNest sanitationVisual cuesWoodlark

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