All birds construct nests in which to lay eggs and/or raise offspring. Traditionally, it was
thought that natural selection and the requirement to minimize the risk of predation …

ABSTRACT A growing body of work suggests that breeding birds have a significant capacity
to assess and respond, over ecological time, to changes in the risk of predation to both …

Squirrels of the World, written by scientists with more than 100 years of collective experience
studying these popular mammals, is the first comprehensive examination of all 285 species …

Predation is a fundamental ecological and evolutionary process that varies in space, and the
avoidance of predation risk is of central importance in foraging theory. While there has been …

Life-history theory predicts that an individual should reduce its reproductive efforts by laying
a smaller clutch size when high risk of nest predation reduces the value of current …

Parents of most insects provide no care for their offspring beyond supplying the eggs with a
small amount of yolk and placing them in a location that is relatively safe from environmental …

Recently, the importance of the female to population dynamics—especially her non‐genetic
contribution to offspring fitness or maternal effect—has received much attention in studies of …

Incubating new ideas about avian reproduction/SJ Reynolds & DC Deeming--The fossil
record and evolution of avian egg nesting and incubation/DC Deeming--Nest construction …

Residential yards comprise a substantial portion of urban landscapes, and the collective
effects of the management of many individual yards may “scale up” to affect urban …

The ability of nest predation to influence habitat settlement decisions in birds is widely
debated, despite its importance in limiting fitness. Here, we experimentally manipulated nest …