Males and females often exhibit different behaviours during mate acquisition, pair‐bonding
and parenting, and a convenient label to characterize these behaviours is sex role. The …

Highlights•Behavioural plasticity can be studied across individuals, sexes and
species.•Mechanisms of plasticity may constrain or facilitate evolution of …

Ornamentation of parents poses a high risk for offspring because it reduces cryptic nest
defence. Over a century ago, Wallace proposed that sexual dichromatism enhances crypsis …

Aim Parental care improves the survival of offspring and therefore has a major impact on
reproductive success. It is increasingly recognized that coordinated biparental care is …

Global warming and intensifying extreme heat events may affect avian reproductive success
and costs, particularly in hot, arid environments. It is unclear how breeding birds alter their …

A major driver of wildlife responses to climate change will include non-genomic effects, like
those mediated through parental behavior and physiology (ie, parental effects). Parental …

Adult sex ratio (ASR, the proportion of adult males in the adult population) and operational
sex ratio (OSR, the proportion of sexually active males in the mating pool) are fundamental …

The frequency of extreme meteorological events such as heat waves and rainstorms is
predicted to increase with climate change. However, there is still little information about how …

Offspring desertion is often a plastic behavioral strategy that requires precise timing as the
termination of parental care may have profound consequences for the fitness of parents and …

In biparental Charadriinae plovers, male and female incubation duties often resemble daily
routines, with males typically incubating at night and females incubating during the day. By …