ArticleBehavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology2025
Parental control: ecology drives plasticity in parental response to offspring signals.
Article in Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology, 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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Birds differ in their parent-offspring interactions, and these differences may be caused by environmental variation. When food is plentiful, the chicks that are begging the most are fed the most. When food is scarce, parents instead feed the largest offspring. This change could due to offspring adjusting their behaviour, or to confounding factors not directly related to current food availability, such as brood size. Alternatively, it could equally be due to parents responding to signals differently based on their experience of food availability in the recent past, for example, over the past weeks. We tested between these competing explanations experimentally, by manipulating food availability in a population of wild great tits,
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