Székely, Tamás;
Carmona-Isunza, Maria C;
Engel, Noémie;
Halimubieke, Naerhulan;
Jones, William;
Kubelka, Vojtĕch;
Rice, Romy;
... McDonald, Grant C; + view all
(2023)
The causes and implications of sex role diversity in shorebird breeding systems.
IBIS: International Journal of Avian Science
10.1111/ibi.13277.
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Abstract
Males and females often exhibit different behaviours during mate acquisition, pair-bonding and parenting, and a convenient label to characterize these behaviours is sex role. The diverse roles that male and female shorebirds (plovers, sandpipers and allies) exhibit in mating and parenting have played a key role in advancing mainstream theories in avian ecology and behavioural biology including sexual selection, sexual conflict and parental cooperation. Recent advances in shorebird research have also highlighted the significance of the social environment in driving sex role behaviours by linking the adult sex ratio with breeding behaviour and population demography. Here we review the key advances in sex role research using shorebirds as an ecological model system. We identify knowledge gaps and argue that shorebirds have untapped potential to accelerate diverse research fields including evolutionary genomics, movement ecology, social networks and environmental changes. Future studies of sex roles will benefit from individual-based monitoring using advanced tracking technologies, and from multi-team collaborations that are facilitated by standardized data collection methodologies across different species in the field. These advances will not only contribute to our understanding of reproductive strategies, but they will also have knock-on effects on predicting population resilience to environmental changes and on prioritizing species for conservation.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The causes and implications of sex role diversity in shorebird breeding systems |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/ibi.13277 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13277 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Ibis published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ornithologists' Union. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
| Keywords: | Adult sex ratio; mating system; parental care; sexual conflict; sexual selection |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10180060 |
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