ArticleEcology letters2022
Disentangling climatic and nest predator impact on reproductive output reveals adverse high-temperature effects regardless of helper number in an arid-region cooperative bird.
Article in Ecology letters, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Behavioural responses to heat in an arid-zone bird vary with thermal, hygric and social factors.Oecologia · 2026Article
- The effects of temperature on nestling growth in a songbird depend on developmental constraints.PloS one · 2026Article
- The Complex Relationship Between High Temperatures and Avian Breeding Success: Insights From a Global Review.Ecology and evolution · 2025Review
- Cooperative breeding does not mitigate declines in offspring care with cool and wet conditions in a temperate Australian songbird.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Altruism and natural selection in a variable environment.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Comparison of Reproductive Strategies between Two SympatricAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Egg components and offspring survival vary with group size and laying order in a cooperative breeder.Oecologia · 2023Article
- Disentangling climatic and nest predator impact on reproductive output reveals adverse high-temperature effects regardless of helper number in an arid-region cooperative bird.Ecology letters · 2022Article
- Helpers don't help when it's hot in a cooperatively breeding bird, the Southern Pied Babbler.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Climate exerts a major influence on reproductive processes, and an understanding of the mechanisms involved and which factors might mitigate adverse weather is fundamental under the ongoing climate change. Here, we study how weather and nest predation influence reproductive output in a social species, and examine whether larger group sizes can mitigate the adverse effects of these factors. We used a 7-year nest predator-exclusion experiment on an arid-region cooperatively breeding bird, the sociable weaver. We found that dry and, especially, hot weather were major drivers of nestling mortality through their influence on nest predation. However, when we experimentally excluded nest predators, these conditions were still strongly associated with nestling mortality. Group size was unimportant against nest predation and, although positively associated with reproductive success, it did not mitigate the effects of adverse weather. Hence, cooperative breeding might have a limited capacity to mitigate extreme weather effects.
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