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dc.contributor.authorFlegeltaub, Marken
dc.contributor.authorBiro, Peter Aen
dc.contributor.authorBeckmann, Christaen
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-17T09:16:00Z-
dc.date.issued2017-
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Ornithology, 158(4), p. 1091-1098en
dc.identifier.issn2193-7206en
dc.identifier.issn2193-7192en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/21999-
dc.description.abstractNest abandonment prior to laying is poorly understood and rarely studied. One possible explanation is that it is a behavior which may have evolved in response to high predation risk in nesting birds as a strategy to avoid the even greater costs of losing eggs or chicks. We tested this hypothesis in the Grey Fantail (Rhipidura albiscapa), a species that builds and abandons multiple nests throughout its breeding season without laying eggs. We placed artificial nests (that contained natural and plasticine eggs) in the exact locations of natural nests from the previous breeding season (spanning a large elevational gradient) for which the fate was known (abandoned, predated, or fledged). Trials were conducted early and late in the breeding season to test for temporal patterns. We postulated that should nest abandonment indeed reduce predation risk, then artificial nests placed at previously abandoned nest sites should have a greater risk of predation than nests placed at predated or fledged nest sites. Overall, we found that 74% of artificial nests were predated, with predation attributed to birds (66%), small mammals (7%), ants (8%), and unknown predators (19%). Artificial nest predation varied according to previous nest fate, whereby predation rates were lowest for predated sites, slightly higher for fledged, and highest at previously abandoned nest sites. In addition, cover increased survival rates for all nest site types. However, we observed a shift in the proportion of nests predated by birds versus other predator taxa, whereby nest predation by birds was highest late in the season at high elevation; this increase may have been due to extreme high temperatures at low elevation resulting in bird predators moving to refuges at higher elevation.en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherSpringeren
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Ornithologyen
dc.titleAvian nest abandonment prior to laying: a strategy to minimize predation risk?en
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10336-017-1470-7en
dc.subject.keywordsAnimal Behaviouren
dc.subject.keywordsBehavioural Ecologyen
local.contributor.firstnameMarken
local.contributor.firstnamePeter Aen
local.contributor.firstnameChristaen
local.subject.for2008060201 Behavioural Ecologyen
local.subject.for2008060801 Animal Behaviouren
local.subject.seo2008970106 Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciencesen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Environmental and Rural Scienceen
local.profile.emailcbeckman@une.edu.auen
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local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
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local.publisher.placeGermanyen
local.format.startpage1091en
local.format.endpage1098en
local.peerreviewedYesen
local.identifier.volume158en
local.identifier.issue4en
local.title.subtitlea strategy to minimize predation risk?en
local.contributor.lastnameFlegeltauben
local.contributor.lastnameBiroen
local.contributor.lastnameBeckmannen
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local.identifier.unepublicationidune:22189en
local.identifier.handlehttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/21999en
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitleAvian nest abandonment prior to layingen
local.output.categorydescriptionC1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journalen
local.search.authorFlegeltaub, Marken
local.search.authorBiro, Peter Aen
local.search.authorBeckmann, Christaen
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local.identifier.wosid000410915900018en
local.year.published2017en
local.fileurl.closedpublishedhttps://rune.une.edu.au/web/retrieve/138b51a4-33a7-4250-8647-21eb08d9f60ben
local.subject.for2020310301 Behavioural ecologyen
local.subject.for2020310901 Animal behaviouren
local.subject.seo2020280102 Expanding knowledge in the biological sciencesen
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