On the Adaptive Basis for Hatching Asynchrony: Brood Reduction, Nest Failure and Asynchronous Hatching in Snow Buntings

1985 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 205 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. T. Hussell
Keyword(s):  
Hatching Asynchrony ◽  
Brood Reduction ◽  
Nest Failure ◽  
Asynchronous Hatching

Avian Breeding Adaptations: Hatching Asynchrony, Brood Reduction, and Nest Failure

1981 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Barrett Clark ◽  
David Sloan Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Hatching Asynchrony ◽  
Brood Reduction ◽  
Nest Failure

scholarly journals Context and Frequency of Infanticide in Communally Breeding Guira Cuckoos

The Condor ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 103 (1) ◽  
pp. 170-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Regina H. F. Macedo ◽  
Mariana Cariello ◽  
Laura Muniz
Keyword(s):  
Egg Laying ◽  
Brood Reduction ◽  
Insect Abundance ◽  
Central Brazil ◽  
Asynchronous Hatching ◽  
Almost All

Abstract We studied the context of brood reduction through infanticide by communally breeding Guira Cuckoos (Guira guira) in central Brazil. During seven reproductive seasons, we monitored 142 nests from egg laying until fledging. Almost all nests (97%) lost eggs through ejection, and chick deaths occurred in 72% of all nests with hatchlings. There was evidence for infanticide in 38% of the nests that exhibited some mortality. We compared egg and chick mortality in the early part of the season with the later part, when insect abundance declines, but found no significant differences. Less than one-third of all nests monitored showed asynchronous hatching of eggs, and in those that did, chick death was not in reverse hatch order. Although there are several plausible explanations for infanticide, we highlight one likely candidate, which is its interpretation as a sexually selected trait where individuals gain reproductive benefits by provoking the group's nesting failure.

Lack's Brood Reduction Hypothesis and Avian Hatching Asynchrony: What's Next?

Oikos ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 613 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trond Amundsen ◽  
Tore Slagsvold
Keyword(s):  
Hatching Asynchrony ◽  
Brood Reduction

scholarly journals Hatching asynchrony in birds: Multiple nesting attempts and the nest failure hypothesis

The Auk ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 134 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jong Koo Lee ◽  
Steven L. Lima
Keyword(s):  
Hatching Asynchrony ◽  
Nest Failure
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