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ArticleEcology and evolution2025

Fledgling Sex Ratio Is Determined by Egg Loss, Hatching Order, Nestling Mortality, and Inter-Annual Food Fluctuations for Boreal Owls,

Markéta Zárybnická, Lucie Brejšková, Karolina Mahlerová, Karel Šťastný, Richard Ševčík, Fernando Riera, Wesley M Hochachka

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Article in Ecology and evolution, 2025. 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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Markéta ZárybnickáDepartment of Ecology, Faculty of Environmental Sciences Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Prague Czech Republic.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5883-0988
Lucie BrejškováInstitute of Experimental Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Prague Czech Republic.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6590-1721
Karolina MahlerováDepartment of Ecology, Faculty of Environmental Sciences Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Prague Czech Republic.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7970-485X
Karel ŠťastnýDepartment of Ecology, Faculty of Environmental Sciences Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Prague Czech Republic.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6388-964X
Richard ŠevčíkDepartment of Ecology, Faculty of Environmental Sciences Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Prague Czech Republic.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2610-0424
Fernando RieraDepartment of Ecology, Faculty of Environmental Sciences Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Prague Czech Republic.
Wesley M HochachkaCornell Lab of Ornithology New York New York USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0595-7827

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Abstract

Extensive research has been conducted to explore adaptive variation in offspring sex ratios, focusing on birds as a model group. However, studies to date have not been comprehensive in scope, limiting our understanding of whether there is substantial within- or among-year variation in offspring sex ratios, which environmental conditions and mechanisms are associated with this variation, and when during a nesting attempt the fledgling sex ratio is largely determined. To address these gaps, we analyzed our 18-year dataset from 542 sexually size-dimorphic Boreal Owl (

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food fluctuationshatching orderinter‐annual variationnestling mortalityseasonal variationsex ratiosexually‐size dimorphismTengmalm's Owl

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