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dc.contributor.authorShaw, Philip
dc.contributor.authorOwoyesigire, Narsensius
dc.contributor.authorNgabirano, Savio
dc.contributor.authorEbbutt, David
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-23T23:11:22Z
dc.date.available2015-09-23T23:11:22Z
dc.date.issued2014-09
dc.identifier.citationShaw , P , Owoyesigire , N , Ngabirano , S & Ebbutt , D 2014 , ' Life history traits associated with low annual fecundity in a central African Parid : the Stripe-breasted Tit Parus fasciiventer ' , Journal of Ornithology , vol. 156 , no. 1 , pp. 209-221 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-014-1115-zen
dc.identifier.issn2193-7192
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 161331637
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: e585d1c0-528f-4e6c-a436-becf0cf1539d
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000347703700021
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85010637561
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-8183-0289/work/143336065
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/7531
dc.descriptionWe gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by the British Ornithologists’ Union and the African Bird Club Date of Acceptance: 01/09/2014en
dc.description.abstractMost Parus species live in the tropics or sub-tropics, and are likely to show life history traits associated with relatively high survival and low fecundity. Based on a 15-year study, we provide the first detailed account of the life history traits of an equatorial Parid, the Stripe-breasted Tit P. fasciiventer, which we contrast with published accounts of north temperate races of the Great Tit P. major. Stripe-breasted Tits fledged a mean of just 1.62 offspring clutch−1, but laid up to four clutches year−1 (mean 1.72) over 11 calendar months, raising their mean annual fecundity to 3.09 fledglings female−1, less than half that of European Great Tits but double that of single-brooded southern African congeners. During incubation, Stripe-breasted and Great Tit females showed similar levels of nest attentiveness, spending 84 and 83–86 % of each 24-h period on the nest, respectively. In contrast, Stripe-breasted Tit parents provisioned at just 10–18 % of the rates recorded for European Great Tits, suggesting that parental investment or prey availability in their respective habitats differed to a similar degree. Consequently, Stripe-breasted Tit nestlings grew more slowly, remained in the nest 4.6 days (20 %) longer, but fledged with proportionately longer wings, perhaps improving their ability to avoid predation. Offspring were last recorded receiving parental care at a mean of 81 days post-fledging (four times longer than is typical of European Great Tits) and remained with their parents for up to 3 years. Helpers were recorded at 61 % of Stripe-breasted Tit nests, and 76 % of breeding adults had helpers during at least one breeding attempt. While latitudinal comparisons often focus on clutch size, much greater disparities were thus evident in other traits, including brood provisioning, the duration of post-fledging care and the incidence of cooperative breeding.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Ornithologyen
dc.rights© 2014. Dt. Ornithologen-Gesellschaft e.V. Published by Springer. The final publication is available at Springer via http://www.dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10336-014-1115-zen
dc.subjectParus fasciiventeren
dc.subjectFecundityen
dc.subjectNest attentivenessen
dc.subjectProvisioningen
dc.subjectCooperative breedingen
dc.subjectPost-fledging careen
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.titleLife history traits associated with low annual fecundity in a central African Parid : the Stripe-breasted Tit Parus fasciiventeren
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Biologyen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-014-1115-z
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2015-09-24


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