Environmental Effects on Parental Care Visitation Patterns in Blue Tits Cyanistes caeruleus

L Lejeune, JL Savage, AC Bründl, A Thiney… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In bi-parental care systems each parent shares benefits with its unrelated partner from the
common investment in offspring, but pays an individual cost of providing that care, leading to …

Elevational gradients as a model for understanding associations among temperature, breeding phenology and success

AC Bründl, L Sallé, LA Lejeune, E Sorato… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Climate change is associated with advancing phenology of seasonal traits in many taxa, but
shifts by higher trophic levels are generally reduced compared with those of lower trophic …

Great tits who remember more accurately have difficulty forgetting, but variation is not driven by environmental harshness

E Hermer, B Murphy, AS Chaine, J Morand-Ferron - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The causes of individual variation in memory are poorly understood in wild animals. Harsh
environments with sparse or rapidly changing food resources are hypothesized to favour …

Altitudinal differences in foraging decisions under predation risk in great tits

T Crouchet, P Heeb, AS Chaine - Behavioral Ecology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Foraging decisions under risk of predation are crucial for survival as predation risk can
contribute to a reduction of food intake over time leading to a trade-off between starvation …

Flexible responses to stage‐specific offspring threats

S Britton, B Ballentine - Ecology and Evolution, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
When caring for their young, parents must compensate for threats to offspring survival in a
manner that maximizes their lifetime reproductive success. In birds, parents respond to …

Foraging plasticity variation in wild great tits along contrasted ecological habitats

T Crouchet - 2023 - theses.hal.science
Phenotypic plasticity, and in particular its behavioral component, is considered to be a key
trait that could help organisms facing the diversity of challenges from their environment and …