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ArticleBehavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology

Previous reproductive success informs nest-building decisions.

Evelyn J Alexander, Sophie C Edwards, Elisabeth G Chapman, Susan D Healy

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Article in Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Demonstrating the reproductive consequences of cognition: learning from experience.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  2. The role of personal reproductive experience on nest building in a wild bird.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology
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  3. Previous reproductive success informs nest-building decisions.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Evelyn J AlexanderCentre for Biological Diversity, School of Biology, Sir Harold Mitchell Building, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9TH, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2923-0494
Sophie C EdwardsCentre for Biological Diversity, School of Biology, Sir Harold Mitchell Building, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9TH, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6413-6033
Elisabeth G ChapmanCentre for Biological Diversity, School of Biology, Sir Harold Mitchell Building, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9TH, United Kingdom.
Susan D HealyCentre for Biological Diversity, School of Biology, Sir Harold Mitchell Building, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9TH, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8059-4480

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Behavioral outcomes, including foraging efficiency and reproductive success, often improve with age and with repeated breeding attempts. Here we examined the role of previous experience on the nest-building behavior of wild blue tits

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blue titnest buildingnest designreproductive experiencereproductive success

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PMID39980873
PMCPMC11840717

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