ReviewEcology letters2022
The overlooked complexity of avian brood parasite-host relationships.
Review in Ecology letters, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed.
- A synthesized framework for the evolutionary origins of avian obligate brood parasitism.Science advances · 2025Article
- Learned use of an innate sound-meaning association in birds.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Article
- Beyond genes-for-behaviour: The potential for genomics to resolve long-standing questions in avian brood parasitism.Ecology and evolution · 2024Review
- Lack of response to conspecific juvenile vocalizations in two avian brood parasites.Current zoology · 2024Article
- Reactions of wintering passerines to male calls of the European cuckoo Cuculus canorus.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Nest architecture influences host use by avian brood parasites and is shaped by coevolutionary dynamics.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Climate change is associated with asynchrony in arrival between two sympatric cuckoos and both host arrival and prey emergence.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- First data on parasites of the invasive brown bullheadHelminthologia · 2023Article
- When perfection isn't enough: host egg signatures are an effective defence against high-fidelity African cuckoo mimicry.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Importance of cooperation: How host nest defenses effectively prevent brood parasitism from the cuckoos.iScience · 2023Article
- The overlooked complexity of avian brood parasite-host relationships.Ecology letters · 2022Review
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Abstract
The relationships between avian brood parasites and their hosts are widely recognised as model systems for studying coevolution. However, while most brood parasites are known to parasitise multiple species of host and hosts are often subject to parasitism by multiple brood parasite species, the examination of multispecies interactions remains rare. Here, we compile data on all known brood parasite-host relationships and find that complex brood parasite-host systems, where multiple species of brood parasites and hosts coexist and interact, are globally commonplace. By examining patterns of past research, we outline the disparity between patterns of network complexity and past research emphases and discuss factors that may be associated with these patterns. Drawing on insights gained from other systems that have embraced a multispecies framework, we highlight the potential benefits of considering brood parasite-host interactions as ecological networks and brood parasitism as a model system for studying multispecies interactions. Overall, our results provide new insights into the diversity of these relationships, highlight the stark mismatch between past research efforts and global patterns of network complexity, and draw attention to the opportunities that more complex arrangements offer for examining how species interactions shape global patterns of biodiversity.
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