Is asynchronous hatching adaptive in herring gulls (Larus argentatus)?

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 304-311

  Hillström, Lars ^a   Kilpi, Mikael ^b,c   Lindström, Kai ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Brood reduction; Chick survival; Feeding behavior; Hatching synchrony; Larus argentatus

Indexed keywords

HATCHING; SEABIRD; SURVIVAL; SYNCHRONY;

LARUS ARGENTATUS;

EID: 0034073547     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002650050670     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Amundsen T, Stokland J N (1988) Adaptive significance of asynchronous hatching in the shag: a test of the brood reduction hypothesis. J Anim Ecol 57:329-344
2. Arnold TW, Rohwer FC, Armstrong T (1987) Egg viability, nest predation, and the adaptive significance of clutch size in prairie ducks. Am Nat 130:643-653
3. Bollinger PB (1994) Relative effects of hatching order, egg-size variation, and parental quality on chick survival in common terns. Auk 111:263-273
4. Bollinger PB, Bollinger EK, Malecki RA (1990) Test of three hypotheses of hatching asynchrony in the common tern. Auk 107:696-706
5. Clutton-Brock TH (1991) The evolution of parental care. Princeton Uinversity Press, Princeton, NJ
6. Davis JWF (1975) Age, egg size and breeding succes in the herring gull Larus argentatus. Ibis 117:460-472
7. Drent RH (1970) Functional aspects of incubation in the herring gull. Behav Suppl 17:1-132
8. Forbes LS (1991) Insurance offspring and brood reduction in a variable environment: the costs and benefits of pessimism. Oikos 62:325-332
9. Forbes LS (1994) The good, the bad and the ugly: Lack's brood reduction hypothesis and experimental design. J Avian Biol 25:338-343
10. Graves J, Whiten A, Henzi P (1984) Why does the herring gull lay three eggs? Anim Behav 32:798-805
11. Hahn DC (1981) Asynchronous hatching in the laughing gull: cutting losses and reducing rivalry. Anim Behav 29:421-427
12. Hamilton WD (1964) The genetical evolution of social behavior: I, II. J Theor Biol 7:1-52
13. Hario M (1990) Breeding failure and feeding conditions of lesser black-backed gulls Larus f. fuscus in the Gulf of Finland. Ornis Fenn 67:113-129
14. Harris MP (1964) Aspects of the breeding biology of the gulls Larus argentatus, L. fuscus and L. marinus. Ibis 106:432-454
15. Hébert PN, Barclay RMR (1986) Asynchronous and synchronous hatching: effect on early growth and survivorship of herring gull, Larus argentatus, chicks. Can J Zool 64:2357-2362
16. Kilpi M (1989) The effect of varying pair numbers on reproduction and use of space in a small herring gull Larus argentatus colony. Ornis Scand 20:204-210
17. Kilpi M (1990) Breeding biology of the herring gull Larus argentatus in the northern Baltic. Ornis Fenn 67:130-140
18. Kilpi M (1995) Further comments on nest density effects in large gulls. J Avian Biol 26:264-266
19. Kilpi M, Hillström L, Lindström K (1996) Egg-size variation and reproductive success in the herring gull Larus argentatus: adaptive or constrained size of the last egg? Ibis 138:212-217
20. Lack D (1954) The natural regulation of animal numbers. Oxford University Press, London
21. Lee SC, Evans RM, Bugden SC (1993) Benign neglect of terminal eggs in herring gulls. Condor 95:507-514
22. MacRoberts MH, MacRoberts BR (1972) The relationship between laying date and incubation period in herring and lesser black-backed gulls. Ibis 114:93-97
23. Magrath RD (1989) Hatching asynchrony and reproductive success in the blackbird. Nature 339:538-539
24. Martins TLF, Wright J (1993) Brood reduction in response to manipulated brood sizes in the common swift (Apus apus). Behav Ecol Sociobiol 32:61-70
25. Meathrel CE, Ryder JP, Termaat B (1987) Size and composition of herring gull eggs: relationship to position in the laying sequence and the body condition of females. Colonial Waterbirds 10:55-63
26. Mock DW, Parker GA (1997) The evolution of sibling rivalry. Oxford University Press, Oxford
27. Mock DW, Ploger BJ (1987) Parental manipulation of optimal hatch asynchrony in cattle egrets: an experimental study. Anim Behav 35:150-160
28. Paludan K (1951) Contributions to the breeding biology of Larus argentatus and Larus fuscus. Vidensk Medd Dan Naturhist Foren 114:1-128
29. Parsons J (1970) Relationship between egg-size and post-hatching chick mortality in the herring gull (Larus argentatus). Nature 228:1221-1222
30. Parsons J (1971) Cannibalism in herring gulls. Br Birds 64: 528-537
31. Parsons J (1972) Egg size, laying date and incubation period in the herring gull. Ibis 114:536-541
32. Parsons J (1975) Asynchronous hatching and chick mortality in the herring gull Larus argentatus. Ibis 117:517-520
33. Parsons J (1976) Factors determining the number and size of eggs laid by the herring gull. Condor 78:481-495
34. Pierotti R (1982) Habitat selection and its effect on reproductive output in the herring gull in Newfoundland. Ecology 63: 854-868
35. Pierotti R (1987) Behavioral consequences of habitat selection in the herring gull. Stud Avian Biol 10:119-128
36. Pierotti R, Bellrose CA (1986) Proximate and ultimate causation of egg size and the "third-chick" disadvantage in the western gull. Auk 103:401-407
37. Pierotti R, Murphy EC (1987) Intergenerational conflicts in gulls. Anim Behav 35:435-444
38. Pugesek B, Diem K (1990) The relationship between reproduction and survival in known-aged California gulls. Ecology 71: 811-817
39. Reid WV (1987) Constraints on clutch size in the glacous-winged gull. Stud Avian Biol 10:8-25
40. Ricklefs RE (1965) Brood reduction in the curve-billed trasher. Condor 67:505-510
41. Stanback MT, Koenig WD (1992) Cannibalism in birds. In Elgar MA, Crespi BJ (eds) Cannibalism, ecology and evolution among diverse taxa. Oxford Science Publications, Oxford, pp 277-289
42. Stoleson SH, Beissinger SR (1995) Hatching asynchrony and the onset of incubation in birds, revisited: when is the critical period? Curr Ornithol 12:191-270
43. Sydeman WJ, Emslie SD (1992) Effects of parental age on hatching asynchrony, egg size and third-chick disadvantage in western gulls. Auk 109:242-248
44. Wiebe KL, Bortolotti GR. (1994) Energetic efficiency of reproduction: the benfits of asynchronous hatching for American kestrels. J Anim Ecol 63:551-560