53 research outputs found
Long COVID burden and risk factors in 10 UK longitudinal studies and electronic health records
Successful breeding predicts divorce in plovers
When individuals breed more than once, parents are faced with the choice of whether to re-mate with their old partner or divorce and select a new mate. Evolutionary theory predicts that, following successful reproduction with a given partner, that partner should be retained for future reproduction. However, recent work in a polygamous bird, has instead indicated that successful parents divorced more often than failed breeders (Halimubieke et al. in Ecol Evol 9:10734–10745, 2019), because one parent can benefit by mating with a new partner and reproducing shortly after divorce. Here we investigate whether successful breeding predicts divorce using data from 14 well-monitored populations of plovers (Charadrius spp.). We show that successful nesting leads to divorce, whereas nest failure leads to retention of the mate for follow-up breeding. Plovers that divorced their partners and simultaneously deserted their broods produced more offspring within a season than parents that retained their mate. Our work provides a counterpoint to theoretical expectations that divorce is triggered by low reproductive success, and supports adaptive explanations of divorce as a strategy to improve individual reproductive success. In addition, we show that temperature may modulate these costs and benefits, and contribute to dynamic variation in patterns of divorce across plover breeding systems
Incrementally constructing and updating constrained Delaunay tetrahedralizations with finite-precision coordinates
Inhibition of electron transfer through the cytochrome b-c 1 complex by nitric oxide in a photodenitrifier, Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides forma sp. denitrificans
Curing behavior and bonding strength of two-component fast-setting adhesives prepared with phenol-liquefied Cryptomeria japonica wood
Reintroduced bighorn sheep: do females adjust maternal care to compensate for late-born young?
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