Key Concepts
The species studied in this experiment.
What is the collared flycatcher?
How many nestlings were added to enlarged broods?
What is two?
Enlarged broods attract more prospectors (True or False).
What is true?
This traditional habitat model assumes full knowledge of patch quality
What is ideal free distribution?
Conspecific
What is an individual of the same species?
The behavior of visiting and assessing other breeding sites before settling.
What is prospecting?
What variable increased after brood size was manipulated?
What is the parental feeding rate?
Feeding rate predicted this outcome at the nest.
What is number of fledglings?
Why prospecting behavior matters for conservation.
What is it influences dispersal, settlement, and population distribution?
Philopatry
What is returning to breed near a previous site?
Information derived from the reproductive performance of conspecifics.
What is public information?
Why manipulating brood size was important.
What is it broke the link between habitat quality and reproductive success to test cues directly?
Where did prospectors breed the following year?
What is near the sites they prospected?
How public information can influence spatial patterns.
What is it can create aggregation of individuals in high-success areas?
Temporal Autocorrection
What is breeding is predictable over time at the same site?
The main cue prospecting birds were found to use.
What is parental feeding rate?
What researchers compared to determine if prospecting influenced future breeding.
What is the distance from prospected site vs. original breeding site?
What happened to prospecting probability over the season.
What is it decreased?
What are sedentary species or species unable to move their eggs once laid?
Fledgling
What is a young bird that has left the nest?
This potential threat increased as parental activity around the nest increased.
What are nest predators and brood parasites?
This tool was used to observe nests from a distance.
What is a telescope?
Why parental activity is a better cue than nestling number.
What is it is visible from distance and easier to assess?
This early 2000s author was most commonly referenced for their publication.
What Danchin et al. 2001?
Akaike Information Criterion (AIC)
What is a method used to compare model fit?