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Breeding success but not mate choice is phenotype- and context-dependent in a color polymorphic raptor.
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- Breeding success but not mate choice is phenotype- and context-dependent in a color polymorphic raptor.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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- A new trophic specialization buffers a top predator against climate-driven resource instability.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
- Ecological contexts shape sexual selection on male color morphs in wood tiger moths.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
- Reproductive senescence in a polymorphic raptor: phenotypic, sex, and environmental effects.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Morph-specific mate choice has been proposed as one of the evolutionary mechanisms that contribute to the maintenance of variation in color polymorphic systems. Coloration usually covaries with other phenotypic traits affecting life history and thus is often used as a criterion for mate choice. Here, we assess whether mating patterns, natal dispersal, and breeding output are phenotype-dependent in the color polymorphic Eleonora's falcon. We used a long-term dataset of 946 individually ringed adult falcons that included 109 individuals monitored from birth up to recruitment into the breeding population. Overall, patterns of mate choice with regard to coloration were neither assortative nor disassortative. Natal dispersal distance was greater in females but was not associated with coloration. Breeding success was both morph-dependent and context-dependent. Although clutch size was similar in differently colored pairs, differences arose in the number of chicks that fledge. In some years, dark males raised more offspring, regardless of female color morph. Differences in the breeding tactics between male morphs could be associated with intraspecific predation and may thus contribute to the observed differences in breeding output, especially when food availability is low. This suggests that mating patterns may interact with other factors and give rise to the observed higher breeding output of dark males only under certain environmental conditions.
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