Spatiotemporal patterns of egg laying in the common cuckoo
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F21%3A43902947" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/21:43902947 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/68081766:_____/21:00543027 RIV/00216208:11310/21:10430896 RIV/00216224:14310/21:00123284
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347221001317?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347221001317?via%3Dihub</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.04.021" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.04.021</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Spatiotemporal patterns of egg laying in the common cuckoo
Original language description
Understanding egg-laying behaviour of brood parasites in space and time can improve our knowledge of interactions between hosts and parasites. However, no studies have combined information on the laying activity of an obligate brood parasite with detailed information on the distribution of host nests within an area and time period. Here, we used molecular methods and analysis of egg phenotypes to determine maternal identity of common cuckoo, Cuculus canorus, eggs and chicks found in the nests of four species of Acrocephalus warblers in consecutive years. The median size of a cuckoo female laying area (calculated as a minimum convex polygon) was correlated negatively with the density of host nests and positively with the number of eggs assigned to a particular female. Cuckoo female laying areas overlapped to a large extent and their size and location did not change between years. Cuckoo females preferentially parasitized host nests located close to their previously parasitized nests and were mostly host specific except for two that parasitized two host species. Future studies should focus on sympatric host and parasite communities with variable densities across different brood-parasitic systems to investigate how population density of hosts affects fitness and evolution of brood parasites. For instance, it remains unknown whether female parasites moving to new sites need to meet a threshold density of a potential host. In addition, young females may be more limited in their egg laying, particularly with respect to the activity of other parasites and hosts, than older females. (c) 2021 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10615 - Ornithology
Result continuities
Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Animal Behaviour
ISSN
0003-3472
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
177
Issue of the periodical within the volume
JUL 2021
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
107-116
UT code for WoS article
000669227900012
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85107667658