Small Clutch Size in a Tropical Whiptail Lizard (Cnemidophorus arubensis)

1983 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jos. J. Schall
Keyword(s):  
Clutch Size ◽  
Small Clutch

Comparison of Avian Communities between Wet and Semiarid Habitats of Eastern Australia

1974 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 107 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Kikkawa
Keyword(s):  
Species Diversity ◽  
Clutch Size ◽  
Bird Species ◽  
Forest Birds ◽  
Subtropical Region ◽  
Species Association ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Bird Species Diversity ◽  
Small Clutch

The composition of bird species in three distinct habitats of subtropical eastern Australia was examined in terms of the degree of species association, niche occupation and clutch size. In spite of low species diversity in the wet formations, the birds of this habitat tended to show characteristics of tropical forest birds. These included stronger association of species, relative abundance of treenesting frugivores and small clutch size. In contrast, the semiarid formations supported a greater diversity of bird species with somewhat loose species association, a large representation of graminivores, and a larger mean clutch size with greater variation. At least in the subtropical region of eastern Australia, the bird species diversity does not appear to be related to the stability of environment.

Parasite infestation and predation in Darwin's small ground finch: contrasting two elevational habitats between islands

2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jody A. O'Connor ◽  
Rachael Y. Dudaniec ◽  
Sonia Kleindorfer
Keyword(s):  
Clutch Size ◽  
Resource Availability ◽  
Nest Predation ◽  
Life History Strategies ◽  
Opposite Pattern ◽  
Bird Populations ◽  
Parasite Intensity ◽  
Large Clutch ◽  
Parasite Infestation ◽  
Small Clutch

Abstract:Contrasting ecological conditions may affect the distribution, abundance and impact of parasites and predators throughout the ranges of hosts and prey. Such patterns are evident on the archipelagos of Hawaii and the Galapagos, which vary in their distribution and abundance of avian parasites within and across islands. Previous research has documented higher intensity of parasitic fly larvae (Philornis downsi) in nests of Darwin's finches on elevated islands of the Galapagos. Here we examine P. downsi intensity and predation in 71 nests of Darwin's small ground finch (Geospiza fuliginosa) on Floreana Island. We found significant differences in parasite intensity, nest predation and clutch size between the lowland (0–100 m) and highland (300–400 m) habitats. Lowland finch nests had few P. downsi parasites (mean of 8 per nest), high nest predation (44% of nests) and large clutch size (3.4). Highland finch nests showed the opposite pattern, with many P. downsi parasites (40 per nest), low nest predation (17%) and small clutch size (2.5). This study suggests that the impacts of an introduced parasite are limited by its niche requirements and resource availability within and across islands. Our findings also imply that the vulnerability of bird populations to introduced parasites and predators is linked with variation in life history strategies across habitats.

Small Clutch Size in a Mediterranean Endemic Lacertid (Podarcis milensis)

Copeia ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 2000 (2) ◽  
pp. 610-614 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Adamopoulou ◽  
E. D. Valakos
Keyword(s):  
Clutch Size ◽  
Small Clutch

Variation in incubation length and hatching asynchrony in Eastern Kingbirds: Weather eclipses female effects

The Auk ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha M Gillette ◽  
Amanda L Klehr ◽  
Michael T Murphy
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Clutch Size ◽  
Egg Laying ◽  
Hatching Asynchrony ◽  
Ambient Temperatures ◽  
Temperature And Precipitation ◽  
Incubation Periods ◽  
Tyrannus Tyrannus ◽  
Eastern Kingbird ◽  
Small Clutch

Abstract Incubation length and hatching asynchrony are integral elements of the evolved reproductive strategies of birds. We examined intra- and interpopulation variation in both traits for Eastern Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus) populations from New York (NY), Kansas (KS), and Oregon (OR) and found that both incubation length and hatching asynchrony were not repeatable among females, after controlling for a repeatable trait, clutch size. Instead, incubation length and clutch size were influenced by ambient temperature and precipitation. Incubation length exhibited the same median (15 days) and range (13–17 days) at all sites. Model selection results indicated that incubation periods for the smallest and largest clutches were longer in NY than KS when rain was frequent throughout incubation, in replacement nests, and likely when ambient temperatures were low during egg-laying. Full hatching usually required 2 days (but up to 3), with synchronous hatching associated with small clutch sizes, short incubation periods, frequent rain during the egg-laying period, and low ambient temperatures during the first half of incubation. Nestling starvation was uncommon (5–9% of nestlings monitored) and not associated with greater hatching asynchrony. These results indicate that while clutch size, a repeatable female trait, contributed to variation in incubation length and hatching asynchrony in Eastern Kingbirds, weather was a greater source of variation, especially for incubation length.

Recurrent violations of invariant rules for offspring size: evidence from turtles and the implications for small clutch size models

Oecologia ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 172 (4) ◽  
pp. 973-982 ◽  
Author(s):  
Njal Rollinson ◽  
Christopher B. Edge ◽  
Ronald J. Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Clutch Size ◽  
Offspring Size ◽  
Small Clutch

Testing Small Clutch Size Models with Daphnia

2004 ◽  
Vol 163 (6) ◽  
pp. 880-887 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meghan A. Guinnee ◽  
Stuart A. West ◽  
Tom J. Little
Keyword(s):  
Clutch Size ◽  
Small Clutch

Is the small clutch size of a Corsican blue tit population optimal?

Oecologia ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 117 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 80-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacques Blondel ◽  
Marie Maistre ◽  
Philippe Perret ◽  
Sylvie Hurtrez-Boussès ◽  
Marcel M. Lambrechts
Keyword(s):  
Clutch Size ◽  
Blue Tit ◽  
Small Clutch

Dinosaur eggs: gas conductance through the shell, water loss during incubation and clutch size

Paleobiology ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger S. Seymour
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Water Vapor ◽  
Clutch Size ◽  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
Pore Geometry ◽  
Bird Eggs ◽  
Respiratory Gases ◽  
Dinosaur Eggs ◽  
Highly Porous ◽  
Small Clutch

The conductance of water vapor and respiratory gases by diffusion through the eggshells of Upper Cretaceous dinosaurs has been estimated from measurements of shell and pore geometry in fossil specimens. When compared to recent reptile and bird eggs for which nest environments are known, the highly porous eggshells of three dinosaur species indicate that the dinosaur nests were high in humidity and probably low in oxygen and high in carbon dioxide. Such conditions most likely occurred underground or within an incubation mound.By isolating the eggs from the atmosphere, however, some large sauropods may have been forced to limit their clutch size to numbers small enough to prevent depletion of oxygen and elevation of carbon dioxide to intolerable levels in the nest. Fossil evidence supports this and suggests that one sauropod actually divided her large eggs into several clutches. Each small clutch probably had a metabolic rate similar to those of clutches produced by recent reptiles and mound nesting birds.

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