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Clutch-size variation in Western Palaearctic secondary hole-nesting passerine birds in relation to nest box design.

Anders Pape Møller 1, * Frank Adriaensen 2 Alexandr V. Artemyev 3 Jerzy Bańbura 4 Emilio Barba 5 Clotilde Biard 6 Jacques Blondel 7 Zihad Bouslama 8 Jean-Charles Bouvier 9 Jordi Camprodon 10 Francesco Cecere Alexis Chaine 11 Anne Charmantier 7 Motti Charter 12, 13 Mariusz Cichoń 14 Camillo Cusimano 15 Dorota Czeszczewik 16 Blandine Doligez 17 Claire Doutrelant 7 Anna Dubiec 18 Marcel Eens 19 Tapio Eeva 20 Bruno Faivre 21 Peter N. Ferns 22 Jukka T. Forsman 23 Eduardo García-Del-Rey 24 Aya Goldshtein 25 Anne E. Goodenough 26 Andrew G. Gosler 27 Iga Góźdź 18 Arnaud Grégoire 7 Lars Gustafsson 28 Ian R. Hartley 29 Philipp Heeb 30 Shelley A. Hinsley 31 Paul Isenmann 7 Staffan Jacob 30 Antero Järvinen 32 Rimvydas Juškaitis 33 Wojciech Kania 34 Erkki Korpimäki 20 Indrikis Krams 35 Toni Laaksonen 20 Bernard Leclercq Esa Lehikoinen 20 Olli Loukola 23 Arne Lundberg 28 Mark C. Mainwaring 29 Raivo Mänd 35 Bruno Massa 15 Tomasz D. Mazgajski 18 Santiago Merino 36 Cezary Mitrus 37 Mikko Mönkkönen 7, 38 Judith Morales-Fernaz 36 Juan Moreno 36 Xavier Morin 7 Ruedi G. Nager 39 Sven G. Nilsson 40 Ana C. Norte 41 Markku Orell 23 Philippe Perret 7 Christopher M. Perrins 27 Carla S. Pimentel 42 Rianne Pinxten 19 Ilze Priedniece 43 Marie-Claude Quidoz 7 Vladimir Remeš 44 Heinz Richner 45 Hugo Robles 2 Andrew Russell 11 Seppo Rytkönen 23 Juan Carlos Senar 46 Janne T. Seppänen 23 Luis Pascoal da Silva 41 Tore Slagsvold 47 Tapio Solonen 48 Alberto Sorace 49 Martyn J. Stenning 50 János Török 51 Piotr Tryjanowski 52 Arie J. van Noordwijk 53 Mikael von Numers 54 Wiesaw Walankiewicz 16 Marcel M. Lambrechts 7
* Corresponding author
1 ESE - Ecologie Systématique et Evolution
2 Evolutionary Ecology Group
3 Institute of Biology
4 Department of Experimental Zoology & Evolutionary Biology
5 Terrestrial Vertebrates Research Unit "Cavanilles"
6 Laboratoire Ecologie et évolution
7 CEFE - Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive
8 Research Laboratory "Ecology of Terrestrial and Aquatic Systems"
9 PSH - Unité de recherche Plantes et Systèmes de Culture Horticoles
10 Biodiversity Department
11 SEEM - Station d’Ecologie Expérimentale du CNRS à Moulis
12 University of Haifa [Haifa]
13 Society for the Protection of Nature
14 Institute of Environmental Sciences
15 Stazione Inanellamento c/o Dipartimento SEN-FIMIZO
16 Department of Zoology
17 Evolution, adaptation et comportement
Département écologie évolutive [LBBE]
18 Museum and Institute of Zoology
19 Department of Biology (Ethology)
20 Section of Ecology
21 BGS - Biogéosciences [UMR 6282] [Dijon]
22 School of Biosciences [Cardiff]
23 Department of Biology
24 Departamento de Ecología
25 Tel Aviv University [Tel Aviv]
26 Department of Natural and Social Sciences
27 Department of Zoology
28 Evolutionary Biology Centre
29 Lancaster Environment Centre
30 EDB - Evolution et Diversité Biologique
31 The Lodge
32 Kilpisjarvi Biological Station
33 Institute of Ecology of Nature Research Centre
34 Ornithological Station
35 Institute of Ecology & Earth Sciences
36 Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva
37 Department of Zoology
38 Department of Biological and Environmental Science [Jyväskylä]
39 Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine
40 Animal Ecology
41 Department of Life Sciences
42 Centro de Estudos Florestais
43 Latvian Fund for Nature
44 Laboratory of Ornithology
45 IEE - Institute of Ecology & Evolution
46 Unidad Asociada CSIC de Ecología Evolutiva y de la Conducta
47 Department of Biosciences [Oslo]
48 Luontotutkimus Solonen Oy
49 SROPU
50 School of Life Sciences
51 Behavioral Ecology Group
52 Institute of Zoology
53 Netherlands Institute of Ecology
54 Environmental and Marine Biology
Abstract : Secondary hole-nesting birds that do not construct nest holes themselves and hence regularly breed in nest boxes constitute important model systems for field studies in many biological disciplines with hundreds of scientists and amateurs involved. Those research groups are spread over wide geographic areas that experience considerable variation in environmental conditions, and researchers provide nest boxes of varying designs that may inadvertently introduce spatial and temporal variation in reproductive parameters. We quantified the relationship between mean clutch size and nest box size and material after controlling for a range of environmental variables in four of the most widely used model species in the Western Palaearctic: great tit Parus major, blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus, pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca and collared flycatcher F.albicollis from 365 populations and 79610 clutches. Nest floor area and nest box material varied non-randomly across latitudes and longitudes, showing that scientists did not adopt a random box design. Clutch size increased with nest floor area in great tits, but not in blue tits and flycatchers. Clutch size of blue tits was larger in wooden than in concrete nest boxes. These findings demonstrate that the size of nest boxes and material used to construct nest boxes can differentially affect clutch size in different species. The findings also suggest that the nest box design may affect not only focal species, but also indirectly other species through the effects of nest box design on productivity and therefore potentially population density and hence interspecific competition.
Keywords : nest box floor area longitude latitude habitat geographic location nest box material
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Anders Pape Møller, Frank Adriaensen, Alexandr V. Artemyev, Jerzy Bańbura, Emilio Barba, et al.. Clutch-size variation in Western Palaearctic secondary hole-nesting passerine birds in relation to nest box design.. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Wiley, 2014, 5 (4), pp.353-362. ⟨10.1111/2041-210X.12160⟩. ⟨hal-00994449⟩

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