Data from: Broodmate aggression and life history variation in accipitrid birds of prey ...

• Main Authors: Redondo, Tomás, Romero, José María, Díaz-Delgado, Ricardo, Nagy, Jenő
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2019
• Subjects: Ictinia mississippiensis; Sibling aggression; Accipiter soloensis; Rostrhamus sociabilis; Polyboroides typus; Neophron percnopterus; Buteo brachyurus; Lophaetus occipitalis; Accipiter cooperii; Accipiter rufiventris; Aquila clanga; Haliaeetus albicilla; Buteo platypterus; Buteo albonotatus; Buteo lagopus; Hamirostra melanosternon; Accipitriformes; Milvus migrans; Accipiter nisus; Hieraaetus spilogaster; Aquila fasciatus; Buteo augur; Aquila adalberti; Hieraaetus morphnoides; Gypaetus barbatus; Buteo lineatus; Buteo swainsoni; Hieraaetus pennatus; Haliaeetus vocifer; present; Buteo buteo; Accipiter melanoleucus; Holocene; Elanus scriptus; Melierax canorus; Circus pygargus; Aquila verreauxii; Haliaeetus leucogaster; Buteo regalis; Accipiter minullus; Milvus milvus; siblicide; Accipiter novaehollandiae; Circus aeruginosus; Aquila wahlbergi; Aviceda subcristata; Parabuteo unicinctus; Pandion haliaetus; Butastur rufipennis; Geranoaetus melanoleucus
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.8h07878; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.8h07878

Aggressive sibling competition for parental food resources is relatively infrequent in animals but highly prevalent and extreme among certain bird families, particularly accipitrid raptors (Accipitriformes). Intense broodmate aggression within this group is associated with a suite of traits including a large adult size, small broods, low provisioning rates, and slow development. In this study, we apply phylogenetic comparative analyses to assess the relative importance of several behavioral, morphological, life history, and ecological variables as predictors of the intensity of broodmate aggression in 65 species of accipitrid raptors. We show that intensity of aggression increases in species with lower parental effort (small clutch size and low provisioning rates), while size effects (adult body mass and length of nestling period) are unimportant. Intense aggression is more closely related to a slow life history pace (high adult survival coupled with a restrained parental effort), rather than a by‐product of ... : Broodmate aggression in accipitrid raptors data: including behavioural, life-history and ecological predictorsThe archive file contains the raw data file (Broodmate_aggression_raptors_database.txt), sources and references (Readme_Database_Sources_and_references.docx), variable description (Readme_Database_Variable_description.txt) and additional tables for the main article (CIC table for candidate model set (Path Analysis).docx, AIC table for candidate model set (life history plus ecological predictors).docx).Redondo_etal_EcolEvol_broodmate_aggression_raptors_Dataset.zip ...