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Successful breeding predicts divorce in plovers

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Date
23/09/2020
Author
Halimubieke, Naerhulan
Kupán, Krisztina
Valdebenito, José O.
Kubelka, Vojtěch
Carmona-Isunza, María Cristina
Burgas, Daniel
Catlin, Daniel
St Clair, James J. H.
Cohen, Jonathan
Figuerola, Jordi
Yasué, Maï
Johnson, Matthew
Mencarelli, Mauro
Cruz-López, Medardo
Stantial, Michelle
Weston, Michael A.
Lloyd, Penn
Que, Pinjia
Montalvo, Tomás
Bansal, Udita
McDonald, Grant C.
Liu, Yang
Kosztolányi, András
Székely, Tamás
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QH301 Biology
QL Zoology
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Abstract
When individuals breed more than once, parents are faced with the choice of whether to re-mate with their old partner or divorce and select a new mate. Evolutionary theory predicts that, following successful reproduction with a given partner, that partner should be retained for future reproduction. However, recent work in a polygamous bird, has instead indicated that successful parents divorced more often than failed breeders (Halimubieke et al. in Ecol Evol 9:10734–10745, 2019), because one parent can benefit by mating with a new partner and reproducing shortly after divorce. Here we investigate whether successful breeding predicts divorce using data from 14 well-monitored populations of plovers (Charadrius spp.). We show that successful nesting leads to divorce, whereas nest failure leads to retention of the mate for follow-up breeding. Plovers that divorced their partners and simultaneously deserted their broods produced more offspring within a season than parents that retained their mate. Our work provides a counterpoint to theoretical expectations that divorce is triggered by low reproductive success, and supports adaptive explanations of divorce as a strategy to improve individual reproductive success. In addition, we show that temperature may modulate these costs and benefits, and contribute to dynamic variation in patterns of divorce across plover breeding systems.
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Halimubieke , N , Kupán , K , Valdebenito , J O , Kubelka , V , Carmona-Isunza , M C , Burgas , D , Catlin , D , St Clair , J J H , Cohen , J , Figuerola , J , Yasué , M , Johnson , M , Mencarelli , M , Cruz-López , M , Stantial , M , Weston , M A , Lloyd , P , Que , P , Montalvo , T , Bansal , U , McDonald , G C , Liu , Y , Kosztolányi , A & Székely , T 2020 , ' Successful breeding predicts divorce in plovers ' , Scientific Reports , vol. 10 , 15576 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-72521-6
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Scientific Reports
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-72521-6
ISSN
2045-2322
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2020. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. Te images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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URL
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-81033-w
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/20781

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