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Experimental enlargement of nest size does not increase risk of predation or brood parasitism in the Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus
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SYSNO ASEP 0442107 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title Experimental enlargement of nest size does not increase risk of predation or brood parasitism in the Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus Author(s) Jelínek, Václav (UBO-W) RID, SAI, ORCID
Procházka, Petr (UBO-W) RID, ORCID, SAI
Honza, Marcel (UBO-W) RID, SAI, ORCIDNumber of authors 3 Source Title Ibis. - : Wiley - ISSN 0019-1019
Roč. 157, č. 2 (2015), s. 396-400Number of pages 5 s. Language eng - English Country GB - United Kingdom Keywords Common Cuckoo ; nest survival ; predation Subject RIV EG - Zoology R&D Projects IAA600930903 GA AV ČR - Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (AV ČR) GAP506/12/2404 GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF) Institutional support UBO-W - RVO:68081766 UT WOS 000351605100017 EID SCOPUS 84925352216 DOI 10.1111/ibi.12245 Annotation We assessed whether nest size affects the probability of nest loss using dyads of large and small (large being twice the size of small) inactive Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus nests placed at similar sites in Great Reed Warbler territories. Large nests were not predated significantly more frequently than small nests. Experimentally enlarged active Great Reed Warbler nests suffered non-significantly higher predation compared with non-manipulated control nests. Our experiments did not support the nest-size hypothesis and suggested that nest size does not appear to be a factor affecting the risk of nest predation in this species. The probability of brood parasitism by the Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus was also unaffected by experimental nest enlargement, supporting the commonly accepted hypothesis that the Common Cuckoo searches for suitable host nests by host activity during nest building rather than nest size. Workplace Institute of Vertebrate Biology Contact Hana Slabáková, slabakova@ivb.cz, Tel.: 543 422 524 Year of Publishing 2016
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