ABSTRACT A growing body of work suggests that breeding birds have a significant capacity
to assess and respond, over ecological time, to changes in the risk of predation to both …

Predation on dependent offspring (ie, offspring that depend on parents for care) forms a
critical source of natural selection that may shape a diversity of life history traits. Selection …

Alexander Skutch hypothesized that increased parental activity can increase the risk of nest
predation. We tested this hypothesis using ten open-nesting bird species in Arizona, USA …

Incubation behavior is one component of reproductive effort and thus influences the
evolution of life‐history strategies. We examined the relative importance of body mass …

The evolutionary causes of small clutch sizes in tropical and Southern Hemisphere regions
are poorly understood. Alexander Skutch proposed 50 years ago that higher nest predation …

Life-history theory predicts that an individual should reduce its reproductive efforts by laying
a smaller clutch size when high risk of nest predation reduces the value of current …

Viewing life–history evolution in birds based on an age–specific mortality framework can
explain broad life–history patterns, including the long incubation periods in southern …

I measured structural characteristics of 160 Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) nests at
Riske Creek, British Columbia, and placed electronic data-loggers in a subsample of 86 …

Incubating new ideas about avian reproduction/SJ Reynolds & DC Deeming--The fossil
record and evolution of avian egg nesting and incubation/DC Deeming--Nest construction …

The breeding ecology of south temperate bird species is less widely known than that of north
temperate species, yet because they comprise a large portion of the world's avian diversity …