Experimental enlargement of nest size does not increase risk of predation or brood parasitism in the Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/68081766:_____/15:00442107

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12245" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12245</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12245" target="_blank" >10.1111/ibi.12245</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Experimental enlargement of nest size does not increase risk of predation or brood parasitism in the Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus

Original language description

We assessed whether nest size affects the probability of nest loss using dyads of large and small (large being twice the size of small) inactive Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus nests placed at similar sites in Great Reed Warbler territories.Large nests were not predated significantly more frequently than small nests. Experimentally enlarged active Great Reed Warbler nests suffered non-significantly higher predation compared with non-manipulated control nests. Our experiments did not support the nest-size hypothesis and suggested that nest size does not appear to be a factor affecting the risk of nest predation in this species. The probability of brood parasitism by the Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus was also unaffected by experimental nestenlargement, supporting the commonly accepted hypothesis that the Common Cuckoo searches for suitable host nests by host activity during nest building rather than nest size.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EG - Zoology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Ibis

ISSN

0019-1019

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

157

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

5

Pages from-to

396-400

UT code for WoS article

000351605100017

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84925352216