Mating system and timing of breeding in Holarctic waders

Whitfield, D.P.; Tomkovich, P.S.

Авторы: Whitfield D.Ph, Tomkovich P.S.
Журнал: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Том: 57
Номер: 3
Год издания: 1996
Издательство: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
Местоположение издательства: United Kingdom
Первая страница: 277
Последняя страница: 290
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.1996.tb00313.x
Аннотация: In passerine birds polygamous species lay eggs later than monogamous species. Yom-Tov has hypothesized that this is because polygamous males do not provision their mates with food, thereby delaying egg-laying. An indirect prediction of this hypothesis is that there should be no difference in laying dates between monogamous and polygamous birds in which mate provisioning does not occur. This prediction was tested by examining egg-laying dates in sympatric wader species that have contrasting mating systems but in which food provisioning of mates does not occur. Polygamous waders laid eggs later than monogamous waders, however, both in a comparison involving only calidridine sandpipers and in a comparison involving sandpipers and plovers. Accounting for phylogeny did not affect the direction of the results, which therefore cast doubt on the validity of the ‘mate provisioning’ hypothesis and indicated that features common to both passerines and waders were more likely to explain the differences in egg-laying dates between mating systems. Mating system and parental care system were strongly related, with all polygamous species being uniparental and monogamous species being biparental. It is suggested that seasonally early food supplies are of relatively low abundance, constraining species to biparental care and monogamy. By contrast, seasonally late food supplies are more abundant, making uniparental care more successful, thereby creating greater opportunities for mate desertion and polygamy.
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