Hierarchical analysis of avian re-nesting behavior: mean, across-individual, and intra-individual responses Beckmann, Christa, Biro, Peter A. and Martin, Kathy 2015, Hierarchical analysis of avian re-nesting behavior: mean, across-individual, and intra-individual responses, Behavioral ecology and sociobiology, vol. 69, no. 10, pp. 1631-1638, doi: 10.1007/s00265-015-1974-1. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads SYMPLECTIC-LICENCE DRO_Licence_Agreement.txt 1.48KB 1 beckmann-hierarchical-2015.pdf Published version application/pdf 325.58KB 33 Title Hierarchical analysis of avian re-nesting behavior: mean, across-individual, and intra-individual responses Author(s) Beckmann, Christa orcid.org/0000-0002-7904-7228 Biro, Peter A. orcid.org/0000-0002-3565-240X Martin, Kathy Journal name Behavioral ecology and sociobiology Volume number 69 Issue number 10 Start page 1631 End page 1638 Total pages 8 Publisher Springer Verlag Place of publication New York, N.Y. Publication date 2015 ISSN 0340-5443 Keyword(s) Nest depredation Nest desertion Nest site selection Personality Plasticity Renest Science & Technology Life Sciences & Biomedicine Behavioral Sciences Ecology Zoology Environmental Sciences & Ecology SITE SELECTION STREPERA GRACULINA RESIDUAL VARIANCE BRITISH-COLUMBIA PIED CURRAWONGS PREDATION REPEATABILITY HERITABILITY CONCEALMENT RISK Summary © 2015, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Anti-predator behavior is a key aspect of life history evolution, usually studied at the population (mean), or across-individual levels. However individuals can also differ in their intra-individual (residual) variation, but to our knowledge, this has only been studied once before in free-living animals. Here we studied the distances moved and changes in nest height and concealment between successive nesting attempts of marked pairs of grey fantails (Rhipidura albiscapa) in relation to nest fate, across the breeding season. We predicted that females (gender that decides where the nest is placed) should on average show adaptive behavioral responses to the experience of prior predation risk such that after an unsuccessful nesting attempt, replacement nests should be further away, higher from the ground, and more concealed compared with replacement nests after successful nesting attempts. We found that, on average, females moved greater distances to re-nest after unsuccessful nesting attempts (abandoned or depredated) in contrast to after a successful attempt, suggesting that re-nesting decisions are sensitive to risk. We found no consistent across-individual differences in distances moved, heights, or concealment. However, females differed by 53-fold (or more) in their intra-individual variability (i.e., predictability) with respect to distances moved and changes in nest height between nesting attempts, indicating that either some systematic variation went unexplained and/or females have inherently different predictability. Ignoring these individual differences in residual variance in our models obscured the effect of nest fate on re-nesting decisions that were evident at the mean level. Language eng DOI 10.1007/s00265-015-1974-1 Field of Research 060201 Behavioural Ecology Socio Economic Objective 969999 Environment not elsewhere classified HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2015, Springer Verlag Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30077919 Document type: Journal Article Collections: School of Life and Environmental Sciences Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges   Connect to Elements publication management system Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 04 Sep 2015, 14:17:40 EST Sat, 05 Sep 2015, 05:02:00 EST Mon, 07 Sep 2015, 08:38:39 EST Mon, 07 Sep 2015, 10:29:11 EST Mon, 09 Nov 2015, 15:39:12 EST Tue, 10 Nov 2015, 04:00:06 EST Tue, 10 Nov 2015, 05:11:42 EST Wed, 09 Dec 2015, 13:29:47 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 5 times in TR Web of Science Cited 6 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 97 Abstract Views, 35 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 09 Nov 2015, 15:39:12 EST

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