NDLI: Plasticity of parental care under the risk of predation: how much should parents reduce care?

Content Provider	PubMed Central
Author	Ghalambor, Cameron K. Peluc, Susana I. Martin, Thomas E.
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	Predation can be an important agent of natural selection shaping parental care behaviours, and can also favour behavioural plasticity. Parent birds often decrease the rate that they visit the nest to provision offspring when perceived risk is high. Yet, the plasticity of such responses may differ among species as a function of either their relative risk of predation, or the mean rate of provisioning. Here, we report parental provisioning responses to experimental increases in the perceived risk of predation. We tested responses of 10 species of bird in north temperate Arizona and subtropical Argentina that differed in their ambient risk of predation. All species decreased provisioning rates in response to the nest predator but not to a control. However, provisioning rates decreased more in species that had greater ambient risk of predation on natural nests. These results support theoretical predictions that the extent of plasticity of a trait that is sensitive to nest predation risk should vary among species in accordance with predation risk.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2013.0154
Starting Page	20130154
File Format	PDF
ISSN	17449561
e-ISSN	1744957X
Journal	Biology Letters
Issue Number	4
Volume Number	9
Language	English
Publisher	The Royal Society
Publisher Date	2013-06-12
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	The Royal Society
Subject Keyword	Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all) Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Sl.	Authority	Responsibilities	Communication Details
1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
5	Website/Portal (Helpdesk)	Queries regarding NDLI and its services	support@ndl.gov.in
6	Contents and Copyright Issues	Queries related to content curation and copyright issues	content@ndl.gov.in
7	National Digital Library of India Club (NDLI Club)	Queries related to NDLI Club formation, support, user awareness program, seminar/symposium, collaboration, social media, promotion, and outreach	clubsupport@ndl.gov.in
8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in

Plasticity of parental care under the risk of predation: how much should parents reduce care?

Data from: Plasticity of parental care under the risk of predation: how much should parents reduce care? (Dataset)

Inbreeding depression in adaptive plasticity under predation risk in a freshwater snail

Predation risk causes oxidative damage in prey

Temporal learning of predation risk by embryonic amphibians

Plastic proteans: reduced predictability in the face of predation risk in hermit crabs

The interactive effects of competition and predation risk on dispersal in an insect

Indirect cues of nest predation risk and avian reproductive decisions

Relaxed predation risk reduces but does not eliminate sociality in birds

Plasticity of parental care under the risk of predation: how much should parents reduce care?

Similar Documents

Plasticity of parental care under the risk of predation: how much should parents reduce care?

Data from: Plasticity of parental care under the risk of predation: how much should parents reduce care? (Dataset)

Inbreeding depression in adaptive plasticity under predation risk in a freshwater snail

Predation risk causes oxidative damage in prey

Temporal learning of predation risk by embryonic amphibians

Plastic proteans: reduced predictability in the face of predation risk in hermit crabs

The interactive effects of competition and predation risk on dispersal in an insect

Indirect cues of nest predation risk and avian reproductive decisions

Relaxed predation risk reduces but does not eliminate sociality in birds

Plasticity of parental care under the risk of predation: how much should parents reduce care?