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Leclercq, Bernard

Lehikoinen, Esa

Loukola, Olli

Lund University.

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von Numers, Mikael

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Frank Adriaensen

Alexandr Artemyev

Jerzy Bańbura

Emilio Barba

Clotilde Biard

Jacques Blondel

Zihad Bouslama

Jean-Charles Bouvier

Jordi Camprodon

Francesco Cecere

Anne Charmantier

Motti Charter

Mariusz Cichoń

Camillo Cusimano

Dorota Czeszczewik

Virginie Demeyrier

Blandine Doligez

Claire Doutrelant

Anna Dubiec

Marcel Eens

Tapio Eeva

Bruno Faivre

Peter N. Ferns

Jukka T. Forsman

Eduardo García-Del-Rey

Aya Goldshtein

Anne E. Goodenough

Andrew G. Gosler

Iga Góźdź

Arnaud Grégoire

Lars Gustafsson

Ian R. Hartley

Philipp Heeb

Shelley A. Hinsley

Paul Isenmann

Staffan Jacob

Antero Järvinen

Rimvydas Juškaitis

Erkki Korpimäki

Indrikis Krams

Toni Laaksonen

Bernard Leclercq

Esa Lehikoinen

Olli Loukola

Arne Lundberg

Mark C. Mainwaring

Raivo Mänd

Bruno Massa

Tomasz D. Mazgajski

Santiago Merino

Cezary Mitrus

Mikko Mönkkönen

Judith Morales-Fernaz

Xavier Morin

Ruedi G. Nager

Jan-Åke Nilsson

Sven G. Nilsson

Ana C. Norte

Markku Orell

Philippe Perret

Carla S. Pimentel

Rianne Pinxten

Ilze Priedniece

Marie-Claude Quidoz

Vladimir Remeš

Heinz Richner

Hugo Robles

Seppo Rytkönen

Juan Carlos Senar

Janne T. Seppänen

Luís P. da Silva

Tore Slagsvold

Tapio Solonen

Alberto Sorace

Martyn J. Stenning

János Török

Piotr Tryjanowski

Arie J. van Noordwijk

Mikael von Numers

Wiesław Walankiewicz

Marcel M. Lambrechts

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Variation in clutch size in relation to nest size in birds

13 pagesInternational audienceNests are structures built to support and protect eggs and/or offspring from predators, parasites, and adverse weather conditions. Nests are mainly constructed prior to egg laying, meaning that parent birds must make decisions about nest site choice and nest building behavior before the start of egg-laying. Parent birds should be selected to choose nest sites and to build optimally sized nests, yet our current understanding of clutch size-nest size relationships is limited to small-scale studies performed over short time periods. Here, we quantified the relationship between clutch size and nest size, using an exhaustive database of 116 slope estimates based on 17,472 nests of 21 species of hole and non-hole-nesting birds. There was a significant, positive relationship between clutch size and the base area of the nest box or the nest, and this relationship did not differ significantly between open nesting and hole-nesting species. The slope of the relationship showed significant intraspecific and interspecific heterogeneity among four species of secondary hole-nesting species, but also among all 116 slope estimates. The estimated relationship between clutch size and nest box base area in study sites with more than a single size of nest box was not significantly different from the relationship using studies with only a single size of nest box. The slope of the relationship between clutch size and nest base area in different species of birds was significantly negatively related to minimum base area, and less so to maximum base area in a given study. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that bird species have a general reaction norm reflecting the relationship between nest size and clutch size. Further, they suggest that scientists may influence the clutch size decisions of hole-nesting birds through the provisioning of nest boxes of varying sizes

Møller, Anders P.

Bańbura, Jerzy

Cichoń, Mariusz

García-Del-Rey, Eduardo

Góźdź, Iga

Grégoire, Arnaud

Järvinen, Antero

Juškaitis, Rimvydas

Korpimäki, Erkki

Mänd, Raivo

Mönkkönen, Mikko

Nilsson, Sven G.

Remeš, Vladimir

Rytkönen, Seppo

Senar, Juan Carlos

Seppänen, Janne T.

da Silva, Luís P.

Török, János

Walankiewicz, Wiesław

HAL Université de Toulouse, et Toulouse INP

Variation in clutch size in relation to nest size in birds.

Nilsson, Jan-Åke

Van Noordwijk, Arie J.

Von Numers, Mikael

Archive Ouverte en Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication

Nests are structures built to support and protect eggs and/or offspring from predators, parasites, and adverse weather conditions. Nests are mainly constructed prior to egg laying, meaning that parent birds must make decisions about nest site choice and nest building behavior before the start of egg-laying. Parent birds should be selected to choose nest sites and to build optimally sized nests, yet our current understanding of clutch size-nest size relationships is limited to small-scale studies performed over short time periods. Here, we quantified the relationship between clutch size and nest size, using an exhaustive database of 116 slope estimates based on 17,472 nests of 21 species of hole and non-hole-nesting birds. There was a significant, positive relationship between clutch size and the base area of the nest box or the nest, and this relationship did not differ significantly between open nesting and hole-nesting species. The slope of the relationship showed significant intraspecific and interspecific heterogeneity among four species of secondary hole-nesting species, but also among all 116 slope estimates. The estimated relationship between clutch size and nest box base area in study sites with more than a single size of nest box was not significantly different from the relationship using studies with only a single size of nest box. The slope of the relationship between clutch size and nest base area in different species of birds was significantly negatively related to minimum base area, and less so to maximum base area in a given study. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that bird species have a general reaction norm reflecting the relationship between nest size and clutch size. Further, they suggest that scientists may influence the clutch size decisions of hole-nesting birds through the provisioning of nest boxes of varying sizes

Variation in clutch size in relation to nest size in birds

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