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1. Life history shapes variation in egg composition in the blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus

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Valcu, Cristina-Maria, Scheltema, Richard A., Schweiggert, Ralf M., Valcu, Mihai, Teltscher, Kim, Walther, Dirk M., Carle, Reinhold, and Kempenaers, Bart

Subjects
Quantitative Biology - Populations and Evolution
Abstract

Maternal investment directly shapes early developmental conditions and therefore has longterm fitness consequences for the offspring. In oviparous species prenatal maternal investment is fixed at the time of laying. To ensure the best survival chances for most of their offspring, females must equip their eggs with the resources required to perform well under various circumstances, yet the actual mechanisms remain unknown. Here we describe the blue tit egg albumen and yolk proteomes and evaluate their potential to mediate maternal effects. We show that variation in egg composition (proteins, lipids, carotenoids) primarily depends on laying order and female age. Egg proteomic profiles are mainly driven by laying order, and investment in the egg proteome is functionally biased among eggs. Our results suggest that maternal effects on egg composition result from both passive and active (partly compensatory) mechanisms, and that variation in egg composition creates diverse biochemical environments for embryonic development.

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2024
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6. The collective application of shorebird tracking data to conservation

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Harrison, Autumn-Lynn, primary, Stenzel, Candace, additional, Anderson, Alexandra, additional, Howell, Jessica, additional, Lanctot, Richard B., additional, Aikens, Marley, additional, Aldabe, Joaquín, additional, Berigan, Liam A., additional, Bêty, Joël, additional, Blomberg, Erik, additional, Bosi de Almeida, Juliana, additional, Boyce, Andy J., additional, Bradley, David W., additional, Brown, Stephen, additional, Carlisle, Jay, additional, Cheskey, Edward, additional, Christie, Katherine, additional, Christin, Sylvain, additional, Clay, Rob, additional, Dayer, Ashley, additional, Deppe, Jill L., additional, English, Willow, additional, Flemming, Scott A., additional, Gilg, Olivier, additional, Gilroy, Christine, additional, Heath, Susan, additional, Hill, Jason M., additional, Hipfner, J. Mark, additional, Johnson, James A., additional, Johnson, Luanne, additional, Kempenaers, Bart, additional, Knaga, Paul, additional, Kwon, Eunbi, additional, Lagassé, Benjamin J., additional, Lamarre, Jean-François, additional, Latty, Christopher, additional, Léandri-Breton, Don-Jean, additional, Lecomte, Nicolas, additional, Loring, Pam, additional, McGuire, Rebecca, additional, Moorhead, Scott, additional, Navedo, Juan G., additional, Newstead, David, additional, Nol, Erica, additional, Olalla-Kerstupp, Alina, additional, Olson, Bridget, additional, Olson, Elizabeth, additional, Paquet, Julie, additional, Pierce, Allison K., additional, Rausch, Jennie, additional, Regan, Kevin, additional, Reiter, Matt, additional, Roth, Amber M., additional, Russell, Mike, additional, Saalfeld, Sarah T., additional, Scarpignato, Amy L., additional, Schulte, Shiloh, additional, Senner, Nathan R., additional, Smith, Joseph A. M., additional, Smith, Paul A., additional, Spector, Zach, additional, Werner, Kelly Srigley, additional, Stantial, Michelle L., additional, Taylor, Audrey R., additional, Valcu, Mihai, additional, Wehtje, Walter, additional, Winn, Brad, additional, and Wunder, Michael B., additional

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2024
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10. Mutual mate guarding with limited sexual conflict in a sex-role-reversed shorebird.

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Krietsch, Johannes, Valcu, Mihai, Cragnolini, Margherita, Forstmeier, Wolfgang, and Kempenaers, Bart

Subjects
*SEXISM, *POLYANDRY, *ANIMAL clutches, *PATERNITY, *SOCIAL bonds, *SEXUAL selection, *FEMALES, *SHORE birds
Abstract

Mate guarding is typically considered a male strategy to protect paternity. However, under some circumstances, females might also benefit from guarding their mate. Female mate guarding might be particularly important in socially polyandrous species in which females compete for access to care-giving males. Because males also benefit from being near their partner to avoid paternity loss, pair members may have a mutual interest in mate guarding in polyandrous species. We studied the time spent together and movements that lead to separation, as behavioral measures of mate guarding, in the classically polyandrous red phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius). We equipped 64 breeding pairs with miniaturized telemetry loggers with GPS to assess variation in mate-guarding intensity in relation to breeding phenology and season, nest attendance, and the occurrence of extrapair paternity. We show that red phalarope pairs were almost continuously together in the days before clutch initiation with no sex bias in separation movements, indicating mutual contribution to mate guarding. Our results suggest that in red phalaropes, both pair members guard their mate, with limited sexual conflict arising through biases in the operational sex ratio and a trade-off with male nest attendance. We found no clear relationship between mate-guarding intensity and the occurrence of extrapair paternity. In this non-territorial socially polyandrous species, mutual mate guarding might be the process underlying the evolution of a brief but strong social pair bond, with no other purpose than producing a clutch for a care-giving male. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2024
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17. Breeding site sampling across the Arctic by individual males of a polygynous shorebird

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Kempenaers, Bart and Valcu, Mihai

Subjects
Shorebirds -- Growth -- Physiological aspects, Animal breeding -- Observations, Company growth, Environmental issues, Science and technology, Zoology and wildlife conservation
Abstract

Author(s): Bart Kempenaers (corresponding author) [1]; Mihai Valcu [1] Males of many polygynous species compete for access to fertile females without providing them with resources other than sperm and without [...]

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2017
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20. Unexpected diversity in socially synchronized rhythms of shorebirds

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Bulla, Martin, Valcu, Mihai, Dokter, Adriaan M., Dondua, Alexei G., Kosztolányi, András, Rutten, Anne L., Helm, Barbara, Sandercock, Brett K., Casler, Bruce, Ens, Bruno J., Spiegel, Caleb S., Hassell, Chris J., Küpper, Clemens, Minton, Clive, Burgas, Daniel, Lank, David B., Payer, David C., Loktionov, Egor Y., Nol, Erica, Kwon, Eunbi, Smith, Fletcher, Gates, H. River, Vitnerová, Hana, Prüter, Hanna, Johnson, James A., St Clair, James J. H., Lamarre, Jean-François, Rausch, Jennie, Reneerkens, Jeroen, Conklin, Jesse R., Burger, Joanna, Liebezeit, Joe, Bêty, Joël, Coleman, Jonathan T., Figuerola, Jordi, Hooijmeijer, Jos C. E. W., Alves, José A., Smith, Joseph A. M., Weidinger, Karel, Koivula, Kari, Gosbell, Ken, Exo, Klaus-Michael, Niles, Larry, Koloski, Laura, McKinnon, Laura, Praus, Libor, Klaassen, Marcel, Giroux, Marie-Andrée, Sládeček, Martin, Boldenow, Megan L., Goldstein, Michael I., Šálek, Miroslav, Senner, Nathan, Rönkä, Nelli, Lecomte, Nicolas, Gilg, Olivier, Vincze, Orsolya, Johnson, Oscar W., Smith, Paul A., Woodard, Paul F., Tomkovich, Pavel S., Battley, Phil F., Bentzen, Rebecca, Lanctot, Richard B., Porter, Ron, Saalfeld, Sarah T., Freeman, Scott, Brown, Stephen C., Yezerinac, Stephen, Székely, Tamás, Montalvo, Tomás, Piersma, Theunis, Loverti, Vanessa, Pakanen, Veli-Matti, Tijsen, Wim, and Kempenaers, Bart

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2016
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22. Supporting Information for 'Unexpected diversity in socially synchronized rhythms of shorebirds'

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Bulla, Martin, Valcu, Mihai, Dokter, Adriaan, Dondua, Alexei, Kosztolányi, András, Rutten, Anne, Helm, Barbara, Sandercock, Brett, Casler, Bruce, Ens, Bruno, Spiegel, Caleb, Hassell, Chris, Küpper, Clemens, Minton, Clive, Burgas, Daniel, Lank, David, Payer, David, Loktionov, Egor, Nol, Erica, Kwon, Eunbi, Smith, Fletcher, Gates, H., Vitnerová, Hana, Prüter, Hanna, Johnson, James, St Clair, James, Lamarre, Jean-François, Rausch, Jennie, Reneerkens, Jeroen, Conklin, Jesse, Burger, Joanna, Liebezeit, Joe, Bêty, Joël, Coleman, Jonathan, Figuerola, Jordi, Hooijmeijer, Jos, Alves, José, Smith, Joseph, Weidinger, Karel, Koivula, Kari, Gosbell, Ken, Niles, Larry, Koloski, Laura, McKinnon, Laura, Praus, Libor, Klaassen, Marcel, Giroux, Marie-Andrée, Sládeček, Martin, Boldenow, Megan, Exo, Michael, Goldstein, Michael, Šálek, Miroslav, Senner, Nathan, Rönkä, Nelli, Lecomte, Nicolas, Gilg, Olivier, Vincze, Orsolya, Johnson, Oscar, Smith, Paul, Woodard, Paul, Tomkovich, Pavel, Battley, Phil, Bentzen, Rebecca, Lanctot, Richard, Porter, Ron, Saalfeld, Sarah, Freeman, Scott, Brown, Stephen, Yezerinac, Stephen, Székely, Tamás, Montalvo, Tomás, Piersma, Theunis, Loverti, Vanessa, Pakanen, Veli-Matti, Tijsen, Wim, and Kempenaers, Bart

Subjects
circadian rhythm, energetic constraint, shorebirds, incubation, phylogeny, behavioral rhythm, biparental care, social synchronization, breeding, latitudinal cline, predation risk, timing, predation, energetic constraints, tidal rhythm, evolutionary history
Abstract

Comparative study

Published
2022
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23. Supporting information for 'A global analysis of song frequency in passerines provides no support for the acoustic adaptation hypothesis but suggests a role for sexual selection'

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Bulla, Martin, Mikula, Peter, and Valcu, Mihai

Subjects
sound propagation, comparative, vocalization, acoustic adaptation hypothesis, passerines, sexual size dimorphism, phylogeny, bioacoustics, sound, frequency, bird song, allometry, macroecology, sexual selection, song, animal communication, pitch
Abstract

The data supporting the results, computer code used to generate the results, and the Supplementary Figures and Tables of this study. The data were collected from publicly available databases.

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2022
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30. The evolution of carotenoid‐based plumage colours in passerine birds.

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Delhey, Kaspar, Valcu, Mihai, Dale, James, and Kempenaers, Bart

Subjects
*COLOR of birds, *CAROTENOIDS, *SEXUAL selection, *PHYLOGENETIC models, *HABITAT selection, *BODY size, *PASSERIFORMES
Abstract

Many birds use carotenoids to colour their plumage yellow to red. Because birds cannot synthesise carotenoids, they need to obtain these pigments from food, although some species metabolise dietary carotenoids (which are often yellow) into derived carotenoids (often red).Here, we study the occurrence of yellow and red carotenoid‐based plumage colours in the passerines, the largest bird radiation and quantify the effects of potential ecological and life‐history drivers on their evolution.We scored the presence/absence of yellow and red carotenoid‐based plumage in nearly 6,000 species and use Bayesian phylogenetic mixed models to assess the effects of carotenoid‐availability in diet, primary productivity, body size, habitat and sexual selection. We also test the widespread assumption that red carotenoid‐based colours are more likely to be the result of metabolization. Finally, we analyse the pattern of evolutionary transitions between yellow and red carotenoid‐based plumage colours to determine whether, as predicted, the evolution of yellow carotenoid‐based colours precedes red.We show that, as expected, both colours are more likely to evolve in smaller species and in species with carotenoid‐rich diets. Yellow carotenoid‐based plumage colours, but not red, are more prevalent in species that inhabit environments with higher primary productivity and closed vegetation. In general, females were more likely to have yellow and males more likely to have red carotenoid‐based plumage colours, closely matching the effects of sexual selection. Our analyses also confirm that red carotenoid‐based colours are more likely to be metabolised than yellow carotenoid‐based colours. Evolutionary gains and losses of yellow and red carotenoid‐based plumage colours indicate that red colours evolved more readily in species that already deposited yellow carotenoids, while the reverse was rarely the case.Our study provides evidence for a general, directional evolutionary trend from yellow to red carotenoid‐based colours, which are more likely to be the result of metabolization. This may render them potentially better indicators of quality, and thus favoured by sexual selection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2023
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38. Connecting the data landscape of long‐term ecological studies: the SPI‐Birds data hub

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Culina, Antica, Adriaensen, Frank, Bailey, Liam, Burgess, Malcolm, Charmantier, Anne, Cole, Ella, Eeva, Tapio, Matthysen, Erik, Nater, Chloé, Sheldon, Ben, Sæther, Bernt‐erik, Vriend, Stefan J.G., Zajkova, Zuzana, Adamík, Peter, Aplin, Lucy, Angulo, Elena, Artemyev, Alexandr, Barba, Emilio, Barišić, Sanja, Belda, Eduardo, Can Bilgin, C., Bleu, Josefa, Both, Christiaan, Bouwhuis, Sandra, Branston, Claire, Broggi, Juli, Burke, Terry, Bushuev, Andrey, Camacho, Carlos, Campobello, Daniela, Canal, David, Cantarero, Alejandro, Caro, Samuel, Cauchoix, Maxime, Chaine, Alexis, Cichoń, Mariusz, Ćiković, Davor, Cusimano, Camillo, Deimel, Caroline, Dhondt, André, Dingemanse, Niels, Doligez, Blandine, Dominoni, Davide, Doutrelant, Claire, Drobniak, Szymon, Dubiec, Anna, Eens, Marcel, Erikstad, Kjell Einar, Espín, Silvia, Farine, Damien, Figuerola, Jordi, Kavak Gülbeyaz, Pinar, Grégoire, Arnaud, Hartley, Ian, Hau, Michaela, Hegyi, Gergely, Hille, Sabine, Hinde, Camilla, Holtmann, Benedikt, Ilyina, Tatyana, Isaksson, Caroline, Iserbyt, Arne, Ivankina, Elena, Kania, Wojciech, Kempenaers, Bart, Kerimov, Anvar, Komdeur, Jan, Korsten, Peter, Král, Miroslav, Krist, Miloš, Lambrechts, Marcel, Lara, Carlos, Leivits, Agu, Liker, András, Lodjak, Jaanis, Mägi, Marko, Mainwaring, Mark, Mänd, Raivo, Massa, Bruno, Massemin, Sylvie, Martínez‐padilla, Jesús, Mazgajski, Tomasz, Mennerat, Adele, Moreno, Juan, Mouchet, Alexia, Nakagawa, Shinichi, Nilsson, Jan‐åke, Nilsson, Johan, Norte, Ana Cláudia, Oers, Kees Van, Orell, Markku, Potti, Jaime, Quinn, John, Réale, Denis, Reiertsen, Tone Kristin, Rosivall, Balázs, Russel, Andrew, Rytkönen, Seppo, Sánchez‐virosta, Pablo, Santos, Eduardo S.A., Schroeder, Julia, Senar, Juan Carlos, Seress, Gábor, Slagsvold, Tore, Szulkin, Marta, Teplitsky, Céline, Tilgar, Vallo, Tolstoguzov, Andrey, Török, János, Valcu, Mihai, Vatka, Emma, Verhulst, Simon, Visser, Marcel, Watson, Hannah, Yuta, Teru, Zamora‐marín, José, Netherlands Institute of Ecology - NIOO-KNAW (NETHERLANDS), University of Antwerp (UA), Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW), Leibniz Association, University of Exeter, Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE), Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Institut Agro - Montpellier SupAgro, Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro), University of Oxford, University of Turku, Trondheim University, Département Ecologie, Physiologie et Ethologie (DEPE-IPHC), Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Station d'écologie théorique et expérimentale (SETE), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), and Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
FAIR data, long-term studies, MESH: animals, meta-data standards, research network, birds, MESH: birds, [SDE]Environmental Sciences, MESH: databases, factual, MESH: metadata, data standards, database
Abstract

International audience; The integration and synthesis of the data in different areas of science is drastically slowed and hindered by a lack of standards and networking programmes. Long-term studies of individually marked animals are not an exception. These studies are especially important as instrumental for understanding evolutionary and ecological processes in the wild. Furthermore, their number and global distribution provides a unique opportunity to assess the generality of patterns and to address broad-scale global issues (e.g. climate change).To solve data integration issues and enable a new scale of ecological and evolutionary research based on long-term studies of birds, we have created the SPI-Birds Network and Database (www.spibirds.org)—a large-scale initiative that connects data from, and researchers working on, studies of wild populations of individually recognizable (usually ringed) birds. Within year and a half since the establishment, SPI-Birds has recruited over 120 members, and currently hosts data on almost 1.5 million individual birds collected in 80 populations over 2,000 cumulative years, and counting.SPI-Birds acts as a data hub and a catalogue of studied populations. It prevents data loss, secures easy data finding, use and integration and thus facilitates collaboration and synthesis. We provide community-derived data and meta-data standards and improve data integrity guided by the principles of Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR), and aligned with the existing metadata languages (e.g. ecological meta-data language).The encouraging community involvement stems from SPI-Bird's decentralized approach: research groups retain full control over data use and their way of data management, while SPI-Birds creates tailored pipelines to convert each unique data format into a standard format. We outline the lessons learned, so that other communities (e.g. those working on other taxa) can adapt our successful model. Creating community-specific hubs (such as ours, COMADRE for animal demography, etc.) will aid much-needed large-scale ecological data integration.

Published
2021

47. Experimental nest site limitation affects reproductive strategies and parental investment in a hole-nesting passerine

Author

Jacot, Alain, Valcu, Mihai, Van Oers, Kees, and Kempenaers, Bart

Subjects
Birds, Parenting, Ecology, Parent and child, Company investment, Zoology and wildlife conservation
Abstract

To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.01.012 Byline: Alain Jacot, Mihai Valcu, Kees van Oers, Bart Kempenaers Abstract: In resource defence mating systems, males monopolize a resource that is of primary importance for breeding females. For secondary cavity nesters, the availability of suitable nesting sites is important in determining the strength of intrasexual competition, whereby phenotypic and behavioural traits will be favoured that enable individuals to gain access to these sites. The traits that are important in male competition may additionally affect mate choice decisions and a female's investment in the current brood. In a field study on blue tits, Cyanistes caeruleus, we increased intrasexual competition by experimentally limiting nest sites in experimental plots and compared these plots to control plots. Birds breeding in experimental plots did not differ phenotypically from birds in control plots. However, females that bred in the nest site-limited plots fed their offspring at a higher rate than control females. This result indicates that increased competition for limited resources led to more investment in current reproduction, either because successful females were of higher intrinsic quality or because they adjusted their investment in relation to superior territory or male characteristics. Author Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Department of Behavioural Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics, Germany Article History: Received 18 March 2008; Revised 30 May 2008; Accepted 16 January 2009 Article Note: (miscellaneous) MS. number: 08-00191R

Published
2009

49. Causes and consequences of breeding dispersal and divorce in a blue tit, Cyanistes caeruleus, population

Author

Valcu, Mihai and Kempenaers, Bart

Subjects
Divorce, Zoology and wildlife conservation
Abstract

To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.12.005 Byline: Mihai Valcu, Bart Kempenaers Abstract: In socially monogamous species with a resource-based mating system, mate choice and territory choice cannot easily be separated. We studied the occurrence and consequences of postbreeding dispersal and divorce in a population of blue tits breeding in nestboxes. Dispersal was defined relative to the spatial position of territories estimated as Dirichlet tiles. Although more than 80% of males and females changed nestbox between breeding seasons, only 3% of males and 25% of females moved to a new territory. Settlement following postbreeding dispersal was driven by habitat quality: dispersing females ended up in territories with higher clutch size expectancy. Dispersed females (both widowed and divorced) reared more fledglings than resident ones, suggesting that dispersal is adaptive. Our results suggest that even at relatively small spatial scales and in continuous habitats, postbreeding dispersal may be driven by habitat quality gradients. Across all years, 53% of surviving pairs divorced. We assessed the effects of mate change independently of territory quality, by restricting analyses to resident individuals that, after divorce, shared a part of their former territory or settled in its close vicinity. Reproductive success increased for males after divorce, but decreased for females. It did not change for reunited pairs in subsequent seasons. Paternity loss or gain through extrapair copulations, and hence overall siring success, did not differ between divorced and reunited males, either before divorce or pair re-formation, or in the year after. After divorce, males but not females paired with larger, presumably higher-quality partners. The results support the better option hypothesis and suggest that males, but not females, may benefit from divorce. However, our results are also compatible with the alternative hypothesis that divorce is driven by female-female competition, whereby a dominant female evicts the former mate. Author Affiliation: Department of Behavioural Ecology & Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany Article History: Received 27 February 2007; Revised 14 May 2007; Accepted 26 December 2007 Article Note: (miscellaneous) MS. number: 9281R

Published
2008

50. Connected data landscape of long-term ecological studies: the SPI-Birds data hub

Author

Adriaensen, Frank, Visser, Marcel, Branston, Claire, Drobniak, Szymon, Sánchez-Virosta, Pablo, Bailey, Liam, Figuerola, Jordi, Aplin, Lucy, Kania, Wojciech, Sæther, Bernt-Erik, Chaine, Alexis, Komdeur, Jan, Cantarero, Alejandro, Burke, Terry, Török, János, Szulkin, Marta, Gülbeyaz, Pınar, Liker, Andras, Zamora-Marín, José, Bouwhuis, Sandra, Tilgar, Vallo, Massemin, Sylvie, Mägi, Marko, Dominoni, Davide, Doligez, Blandine, Rytkönen, Seppo, Dingemanse, Niels, Nilsson, Johan, Eens, Marcel, Krist, Miloš, Norte, Ana, Bushuev, Andrey, Barišić, Sanja, Both, Christiaan, Cole, Ella, Valcu, Mihai, Reiertsen, Tone, Teplitsky, Celine, Senar, Juan, Holtmann, Benedikt, Hille, Sabine, Seress, Gábor, Santos, Eduardo, Hinde, Camilla, REALE, Denis, Hartley, Ian, Ilyina, Tatyana, Orell, Markku, Broggi, Juli, Nater, Chloé, Hau, Michaela, Grégoire, Arnaud, Rosivall, Balázs, Culina, Antica, Leivits, Agu, Lodjak, Jaanis, Erikstad, Kjell, Eeva, Tapio, Lara, Carlos, Bilgin, C., Farine, Damien, Yuta, Teru, Russel, Andrew, Mennerat, Adele, Sheldon, Benjamin, Cichoń, Mariusz, Potti, Jaime, Camacho, Carlos, Hegyi, Gergely, Cusimano, Camillo, Mainwaring, Mark, Dhondt, André, Moreno, Juan, Ćiković, Davor, Korsten, Peter, Slagsvold, Tore, Mazgajski, Tomasz, Kerimov, Anvar, Lambrechts, Marcel, Nilsson, Jan-Åke, Barba, Emilio, Espín, Silvia, Watson, Hannah, Verhulst, Simon, Caro, Samuel, Nakagawa, Shinichi, Canal, David, Belda, Eduardo, Bleu, Josefa, Mouchet, Alexia, Charmantier, Anne, Mänd, Raivo, Vatka, Emma, Doutrelant, Claire, Angulo, Elena, Quinn, John, Burgess, Malcolm, Adamík, Peter, Martínez-Padilla, Jesús, Vriend, Stefan, Iserbyt, Arne, Tolstoguzov, Andrey, Isaksson, Caroline, Král, Miroslav, van Oers, Kees, Deimel, Caroline, Artemyev, Alexandr, Dubiec, Anna, Campobello, Daniela, Kempenaers, Bart, Massa, Bruno, Matthysen, Erik, Ivankina, Elena, Cauchoix, Maxime, and Schroeder, Julia

Subjects
bepress|Life Sciences, bepress|Life Sciences|Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Abstract

The integration and synthesis of the data in different areas of science is drastically slowed and hindered by a lack of standards and networking programmes. Long-term studies of individually marked animals are not an exception. These studies are especially important as instrumental for understanding evolutionary and ecological processes in the wild. Further, their number and global distribution provides a unique opportunity to assess the generality of patterns and to address broad-scale global issues (e.g. climate change). To solve data integration issues and enable a new scale of ecological and evolutionary research based on long-terms studies of birds, we have created the SPI-Birds Network and Database (www.spibirds.org) – a large-scale initiative that connects data from, and researchers working on, studies of wild populations of individually recognizable (usually ringed) birds. Within a year of the establishment, SPI-Birds counts 120 members working on more than 80 populations, with data concerning breeding attempts of almost a million individual birds over a 1700 cumulative years, and counting. SPI-Birds acts as a data hub and a catalogue of studied populations. It prevents data loss, secures easy data finding, use and integration, and thus facilitates collaboration and synthesis. We provide community-derived data and meta-data standards and improve data integrity guided by of Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR), and aligned with the existing metadata languages (e.g. ecological meta-data language). The encouraging community involvement stems from SPI-Bird's decentralized approach: research groups retain full control over data use and their way of data management, while SPI-Birds creates tailored pipelines to convert each unique data format into a standard format. We outline the lessons learned, so that other communities (e.g. those working on other taxa) can adapt our successful model. Creating community-specific hubs (such as ours, COMADRE for animal demography, etc.) will aid much-needed large-scale ecological data integration.

Published
2020

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