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Philippe Perret
Variation in clutch size in relation to nest size in birds
© 2014 The Authors. Nests are structures built to support and protect eggs and/or offspring from predators, parasites, and adverse weather conditions. Nests are mainly constructed prior to egg laying, meaning that parent birds must make decisions about nest site choice and nest building behavior before the start of egg-laying. Parent birds should be selected to choose nest sites and to build optimally sized nests, yet our current understanding of clutch size-nest size relationships is limited to small-scale studies performed over short time periods. Here, we quantified the relationship between clutch size and nest size, using an exhaustive database of 116 slope estimates based on 17,472 nes…
Clutch-size variation in Western Palaearctic secondary hole-nesting passerine birds in relation to nest box design.
Møller, A.P. [et al.]
Testing hypotheses in evolutionary ecology with imperfect detection: capture-recapture structural equation modeling.
8 pages; International audience; Studying evolutionary mechanisms in natural populations often requires testing multifactorial scenarios of causality involving direct and indirect relationships among individual and environmental variables. It is also essential to account for the imperfect detection of individuals to provide unbiased demographic parameter estimates. To cope with these issues, we developed a new approach combining structural equation models with capture-recapture models (CR-SEM) that allows the investigation of competing hypotheses about individual and environmental variability observed in demographic parameters. We employ Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling in a Bayesian frame…
Interspecific variation in the relationship between clutch size, laying date and intensity of urbanization in four species of hole-nesting birds
Marie Vaugoyeau [et al.]
Supplement 1. BUGS code to implement the CR-SEM approach.
File List BUGScodes.txt (md5: 065a902fc724b73a8db114ad6c8875ae) Description BUGS codes for fitting SEM-CR models to the blackbird and blue tits data.
Appendix A. Model selection.
Model selection.
Appendix B. Posterior predictive checks.
Posterior predictive checks.
Appendix C. Posterior distributions of the CR-SEM parameters (conditional on the covariates being in the model).
Posterior distributions of the CR-SEM parameters (conditional on the covariates being in the model).