scholarly journals Effects of the maternal and current social environment on female body mass and reproductive traits in Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica)

2019 ◽  
Vol 222 (5) ◽  
pp. jeb187005
Author(s):  
Esther M. A. Langen ◽  
Vivian C. Goerlich-Jansson ◽  
Nikolaus von Engelhardt
2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (9) ◽  
pp. 1384-1391 ◽  
Author(s):  
K R Smith ◽  
H A Hanson ◽  
B B Brown ◽  
C D Zick ◽  
L Kowaleski-Jones ◽  
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Author(s):  
Giulia Frederico ◽  
Priscilla N. Silva dos Santos ◽  
Jéssica M. Ferreira ◽  
Luis Bahamondes ◽  
Arlete Fernandes

The Condor ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 102 (4) ◽  
pp. 926-929
Author(s):  
Tina Yerkes

AbstractI documented brood and duckling survival, the number of surviving ducklings, and brood movements of Redheads, and examined the association between these variables and female age and body mass. Redhead brood success was 55% and duckling daily survival rates averaged 0.868. Female body mass, but not age, was related to brood and duckling survival and the number of surviving ducklings. Successful females were heavier and produced more ducklings. All brood-movement measures differed between successful and unsuccessful females, however, the distance of the first move between wetlands accounted for the most variability in brood success. Increased body mass, but not age, was associated with longer first brood movements.


1995 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 115 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. S. Hik

Like most heavily preyed-upon animals, snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus) have to balance conflicting demands of obtaining food at a high rate and avoiding predators. Adopting foraging behaviours to minimise predation risk may also lead to a decline in condition, and hence fecundity. Predictions of three hypotheses (condition constraint hypothesis, predator-avoidance constraint hypothesis, predation-sensitive foraging (PSF) hypothesis) were tested by comparing changes in the survival and condition of snowshoe hares on four experimental areas in winter during a cyclic peak and decline (1989–1993) near Kluane Lake, Yukon, Canada, where (i) predation risk was reduced by excluding terrestrial predators (FENCE), (ii) food supply was supplemented with rabbit chow ad libitum (FOOD), (iii) these two treatments were combined (FENCE+FOOD), and (iv) an unmanipulated CONTROL was used. Different pattems of survival and changes in body mass were observed in the presence and absence of terrestrial predators. On the CONTROL area, female body mass and fecundity declined, even though sufficient winter forage was apparently available in all years. A similar decrease in body mass was observed on the FOOD treatment, but only during the third year of the population decline. In contrast, female body mass remained high throughout the decline in the absence of terrestrial predators in the FENCE+FOOD and FENCE treatments. Winter survival declined on CONTROL and FENCE areas during the first year of the population decline (1991), but remained higher on FOOD until 1992 and FENCE+FOOD until 1993. These results generally supported the PSF hypothesis where terrestrial predators were present (CONTROL and FOOD grids). Where terrestrial predators were absent (FENCE and FENCE+FOOD), the results supported the alternative condition constraint hypothesis. The evidence suggests that a cascade of sublethal behavioural and physiological effects associated with increased predation risk contribute to the population decline and delayed recovery of cyclic low-phase populations of snowshoe hares.


2017 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarina Flajšman ◽  
Tomasz Borowik ◽  
Boštjan Pokorny ◽  
Bogumiła Jędrzejewska

2018 ◽  
Vol 110 (4) ◽  
pp. e120-e121
Author(s):  
J.B. Oliveira ◽  
F. Dieamant ◽  
R. Baruffi ◽  
C.G. Petersen ◽  
A.L. Mauri ◽  
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