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BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY
卷 20, 期 1, 页码 207-214出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arn136
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- Marie Curie Fellowship [HPMF-CT-2000-01074]
- Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) [NER/I/S/2002/00712, GR3/11154]
- Large Australian Research Council [A19802459]
- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research [NWO-VICI, 86503003]
- Natural Environment Research Council [NER/I/S/2002/00712, NE/B504106/1] Funding Source: researchfish
In many species, territory ownership is a prerequisite for reproduction; consequently, factors that affect success in territory acquisition can have a large impact on fitness. When competing for territories, some individuals may have an advantage if, for example, they are phenotypically superior or more familiar with the site than others. The relative importance of the many factors involved in territory acquisition is, at present, unclear. We studied patterns of natural territory acquisition in a closed and saturated population of Seychelles warblers. Furthermore, by removing breeders, we experimentally investigated the relative importance, to territory acquisition, of a range of factors and assessed whether this differed between the sexes. In both sexes, the main route to natural territory acquisition was to disperse from the natal territory to immediately claim a vacant dominant position. Males were older than females when acquiring a territory for the first time. In the removal experiment, for both sexes, the proximity of an individual's natal territory to a vacant dominant position was positively related to the individual's chance of claiming the vacancy. Older males were more likely to gain an experimental vacant dominant position than were young males, whereas age did not affect territory acquisition in females. In the Seychelles warbler, the degree of intrasexual competition for territory ownership may be stronger for males than for females because territory ownership is a prerequisite for male reproduction, whereas females can reproduce on their natal territory. In such competition, young males subsequently lose out to older ones.
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