Now you see him, now you don't: experience, not age, is related to reproduction in kittiwakes
In long-lived species, individuals can skip reproduction. The proportion of breeders affects population growth rate and viability, there is a need to investigate the factors influencing intermittent breeding. The theory predicts that if lack of experience is an important constraint, breeding probabi...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:3158944 2023-05-15T18:07:11+02:00 Now you see him, now you don't: experience, not age, is related to reproduction in kittiwakes Desprez, Marine Pradel, Roger Cam, Emmanuelle Monnat, Jean-Yves Gimenez, Olivier 2011-10-22 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3158944 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21367783 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.0189 en eng The Royal Society http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3158944 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21367783 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.0189 This journal is © 2011 The Royal Society Research Articles Text 2011 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.0189 2013-09-03T18:50:05Z In long-lived species, individuals can skip reproduction. The proportion of breeders affects population growth rate and viability, there is a need to investigate the factors influencing intermittent breeding. The theory predicts that if lack of experience is an important constraint, breeding probabilities should increase with experience for individuals of the same age, whereas under the so-called restraint hypothesis, breeding probabilities should increase with age regardless of experience. However, because the probability of detecting individuals in the wild is generally less than 1, it is difficult to know exactly the number of previous breeding episodes (breeding experience). To cope with this issue, we developed a hidden process model to incorporate experience as a latent state possibly influencing the probability of breeding. Using a 22-year mark-recapture dataset involving 9970 individuals, we analysed simultaneously experience and age effects on breeding probabilities in the kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla). We did not detect an influence of age on adult breeding probabilities. We found that inexperienced birds breed less frequently than experienced birds. Our approach enables us to highlight the key role of experience on adults breeding probabilities and can be used for a wide range of organisms for which detection is less than 1. Text rissa tridactyla PubMed Central (PMC) Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278 1721 3060 3066 |
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In long-lived species, individuals can skip reproduction. The proportion of breeders affects population growth rate and viability, there is a need to investigate the factors influencing intermittent breeding. The theory predicts that if lack of experience is an important constraint, breeding probabilities should increase with experience for individuals of the same age, whereas under the so-called restraint hypothesis, breeding probabilities should increase with age regardless of experience. However, because the probability of detecting individuals in the wild is generally less than 1, it is difficult to know exactly the number of previous breeding episodes (breeding experience). To cope with this issue, we developed a hidden process model to incorporate experience as a latent state possibly influencing the probability of breeding. Using a 22-year mark-recapture dataset involving 9970 individuals, we analysed simultaneously experience and age effects on breeding probabilities in the kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla). We did not detect an influence of age on adult breeding probabilities. We found that inexperienced birds breed less frequently than experienced birds. Our approach enables us to highlight the key role of experience on adults breeding probabilities and can be used for a wide range of organisms for which detection is less than 1. |
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