巢穴(蛋白质结构基序)
种间竞争
生态学
生物
共同进化
分类单元
生物化学
作者
Zuzanna Jagiello,Stuart F. Reynolds,Jenö Nagy,Mark C. Mainwaring,Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo
标识
DOI:10.1098/rstb.2022.0156
摘要
Many bird species incorporate anthropogenic materials (e.g. sweet wrappers, cigarette butts and plastic strings) into their nests. Anthropogenic materials have become widely available as nesting materials in marine and terrestrial environments globally. These human-made objects can provide important benefits to birds such as serving as reliable signals to conspecifics or protecting against ectoparasites, but they can also incur fundamental survival and energetic costs via offspring entanglement and reduced insulative properties, respectively. From an ecological perspective, several hypotheses have been proposed to explain the use of anthropogenic nest materials (ANMs) by birds but no previous interspecific study has tried to identify the underlying mechanisms of this behaviour. In this study, we performed a systematic literature search and ran phylogenetically controlled comparative analyses to examine interspecific variation in the use of ANM and to examine the influence of several ecological and life-history traits. We found that sexual dimorphism and nest type significantly influenced the use of ANMs by birds providing support for the ‘signalling hypothesis’ that implies that ANMs reflect the quality of the nest builder. However, we found no support for the ‘age’ and ‘new location’ hypotheses, nor for a phylogenetic pattern in this behaviour, suggesting that it is widespread throughout birds. This article is part of the theme issue ‘The evolutionary ecology of nests: a cross-taxon approach’.
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