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T1 - Clutch-size variation in Western Palaearctic secondary hole-nesting passerine birds in relation to nest box design
AU - Moller, Anders Pape
AU - Adriaensen, Frank
AU - Artemyev, Alexandr
AU - Banbura, Jerzy
AU - Barba, Emilio
AU - Biard, Clotilde
AU - Blondel, Jacques
AU - Bouslama, Zihad
AU - Bouvier, Jean-Charles
AU - Camprodon, Jordi
AU - Cecere, Francesco
AU - Chaine, Alexis
AU - Charmantier, Anne
AU - Charter, Motti
AU - Cichon, Mariusz
AU - Cusimano, Camillo
AU - Czeszczewik, Dorota
AU - Doligez, Blandine
AU - Doutrelant, Claire
AU - Dubiec, Anna
AU - Eens, Marcel
AU - Eeva, Tapio
AU - Faivre, Bruno
AU - Ferns, Peter N.
AU - Forsman, Jukka T.
AU - Garcia-del-Rey, Eduardo
AU - Goldshtein, Aya
AU - Goodenough, Anne E.
AU - Gosler, Andrew G.
AU - Gozdz, Iga
AU - Gregoire, Arnaud
AU - Gustafsson, Lars
AU - Hartley, Ian R.
AU - Heeb, Philipp
AU - Hinsley, Shelley A.
AU - Isenmann, Paul
AU - Jacob, Staffan
AU - Jarvinen, Antero
AU - Juskaitis, Rimvydas
AU - Kania, Wojciech
AU - Korpimaki, Erkki
AU - Krams, Indrikis
AU - Laaksonen, Toni
AU - Leclercq, Bernard
AU - Lehikoinen, Esa
AU - Loukola, Olli
AU - Lundberg, Arne
AU - Mainwaring, Mark C.
AU - Mand, Raivo
AU - Massa, Bruno
AU - Mazgajski, Tomasz D.
AU - Merino, Santiago
AU - Mitrus, Cezary
AU - Monkkonen, Mikko
AU - Morales-Fernaz, Judith
AU - Moreno, Juan
AU - Morin, Xavier
AU - Nager, Ruedi G.
AU - Nilsson, Jan-Ake
AU - Nilsson, Sven G.
AU - Norte, Ana C.
AU - Orell, Markku
AU - Perret, Philippe
AU - Perrins, Christopher M.
AU - Pimentel, Carla S.
AU - Pinxten, Rianne
AU - Priedniece, Ilze
AU - Quidoz, Marie-Claude
AU - Remes, Vladimir
AU - Richner, Heinz
AU - Robles, Hugo
AU - Russell, Andy
AU - Rytkonen, Seppo
AU - Carlos Senar, Juan
AU - Seppanen, Janne T.
AU - da Silva, Luis Pascoal
AU - Slagsvold, Tore
AU - Solonen, Tapio
AU - Sorace, Alberto
AU - Stenning, Martyn J.
AU - Toeroek, Janos
AU - Tryjanowski, Piotr
AU - van Noordwijk, Arie J.
AU - von Numers, Mikael
AU - Walankiewicz, Wiesaw
AU - Lambrechts, Marcel M.
PY - 2014/4
Y1 - 2014/4
N2 - Secondary hole-nesting birds that do not construct nest holes themselves and hence regularly breed in nest boxes constitute important model systems for field studies in many biological disciplines with hundreds of scientists and amateurs involved. Those research groups are spread over wide geographic areas that experience considerable variation in environmental conditions, and researchers provide nest boxes of varying designs that may inadvertently introduce spatial and temporal variation in reproductive parameters.We quantified the relationship between mean clutch size and nest box size and material after controlling for a range of environmental variables in four of the most widely used model species in the Western Palaearctic: great tit Parus major, blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus, pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca and collared flycatcher F.albicollis from 365 populations and 79610 clutches.Nest floor area and nest box material varied non-randomly across latitudes and longitudes, showing that scientists did not adopt a random box design. Clutch size increased with nest floor area in great tits, but not in blue tits and flycatchers. Clutch size of blue tits was larger in wooden than in concrete nest boxes.These findings demonstrate that the size of nest boxes and material used to construct nest boxes can differentially affect clutch size in different species. The findings also suggest that the nest box design may affect not only focal species, but also indirectly other species through the effects of nest box design on productivity and therefore potentially population density and hence interspecific competition.
AB - Secondary hole-nesting birds that do not construct nest holes themselves and hence regularly breed in nest boxes constitute important model systems for field studies in many biological disciplines with hundreds of scientists and amateurs involved. Those research groups are spread over wide geographic areas that experience considerable variation in environmental conditions, and researchers provide nest boxes of varying designs that may inadvertently introduce spatial and temporal variation in reproductive parameters.We quantified the relationship between mean clutch size and nest box size and material after controlling for a range of environmental variables in four of the most widely used model species in the Western Palaearctic: great tit Parus major, blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus, pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca and collared flycatcher F.albicollis from 365 populations and 79610 clutches.Nest floor area and nest box material varied non-randomly across latitudes and longitudes, showing that scientists did not adopt a random box design. Clutch size increased with nest floor area in great tits, but not in blue tits and flycatchers. Clutch size of blue tits was larger in wooden than in concrete nest boxes.These findings demonstrate that the size of nest boxes and material used to construct nest boxes can differentially affect clutch size in different species. The findings also suggest that the nest box design may affect not only focal species, but also indirectly other species through the effects of nest box design on productivity and therefore potentially population density and hence interspecific competition.
KW - longitude
KW - nest box floor area
KW - habitat
KW - nest box material
KW - latitude
KW - geographic location
KW - FLYCATCHER FICEDULA-HYPOLEUCA
KW - NATURAL TREE-HOLES
KW - TITS PARUS-MAJOR
KW - GREAT TITS
KW - BREEDING PARAMETERS
KW - CLIMATE-CHANGE
KW - BLUE TIT
KW - INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION
KW - REPRODUCTIVE TRAITS
KW - DENSITY-DEPENDENCE
U2 - 10.1111/2041-210X.12160
DO - 10.1111/2041-210X.12160
M3 - Journal article
VL - 5
SP - 353
EP - 362
JO - Methods in Ecology and Evolution
JF - Methods in Ecology and Evolution
SN - 2041-210X
IS - 4
ER -