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Cornelsen KA, Arkinstall CM, van Weenen J, Ross AK, Lawes JC, Moseby KE, Elphinstone A, Jordan NR. Telemetry tails: a practical method for attaching animal-borne devices to small vertebrates in the field. Wildl Res 2022. [DOI: 10.1071/wr21107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Alting BF, Bennitt E, Golabek KA, Pitcher BJ, McNutt JW, Wilson AM, Bates H, Jordan NR. The characteristics and consequences of African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) den site selection. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s00265-021-03047-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Rafiq K, Hayward MW, Wilson AM, Meloro C, Jordan NR, Wich SA, McNutt JW, Golabek KA. Spatial and temporal overlaps between leopards (
Panthera pardus
) and their competitors in the African large predator guild. J Zool (1987) 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/jzo.12781] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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- K. Rafiq
- School of Natural Sciences and Psychology Liverpool John Moores University Liverpool UK
- Botswana Predator Conservation Trust Maun Botswana
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- School of Environmental and Life Sciences University of Newcastle Newcastle NSW Australia
- Centre for African Conservation Ecology Nelson Mandela University Port Elizabeth South Africa
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- Structure and Motion Lab Royal Veterinary College University of London Hatfield UK
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- School of Natural Sciences and Psychology Liverpool John Moores University Liverpool UK
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- Botswana Predator Conservation Trust Maun Botswana
- Centre for Ecosystem Science University of New South Wales Sydney NSW Australia
- Taronga Conservation Society Dubbo NSW Australia
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- School of Natural Sciences and Psychology Liverpool John Moores University Liverpool UK
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- Botswana Predator Conservation Trust Maun Botswana
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Rafiq K, Jordan NR, Wilson AM, McNutt JW, Hayward MW, Meloro C, Wich SA, Golabek KA. Spatio‐temporal factors impacting encounter occurrences between leopards and other large African predators. J Zool (1987) 2019. [DOI: 10.1111/jzo.12746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- K. Rafiq
- School of Natural Sciences and Psychology Liverpool John Moores University Liverpool UK
- Botswana Predator Conservation Trust Maun Botswana
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- Botswana Predator Conservation Trust Maun Botswana
- Centre for Ecosystem Science University of New South Wales Sydney New South Wales Australia
- Taronga Conservation Society Sydney New South Wales Australia
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- Structure and Motion Lab Royal Veterinary College University of London Hatfield Herts UK
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- Botswana Predator Conservation Trust Maun Botswana
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- School of Environmental and Life Sciences University of Newcastle Newcastle New South Wales Australia
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- School of Natural Sciences and Psychology Liverpool John Moores University Liverpool UK
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- School of Natural Sciences and Psychology Liverpool John Moores University Liverpool UK
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Bryant B, Pittard S, Jordan NR, McMahon CR. Chemical capture of wild swamp buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) in tropical northern Australia using thiafentanil, etorphine and azaperone combinations. Aust Vet J 2019; 97:33-38. [PMID: 30693492 DOI: 10.1111/avj.12782] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2018] [Revised: 10/15/2018] [Accepted: 12/02/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Studying wild animals in situ is fundamental to collecting baseline information, but generally they need to be immobilised for examination, sampling, marking and/or equipping with tracking apparatus. Capturing wild animals is inherently risky and there is a need for immobilisation methods that are safe for both the animals and researchers. METHODS A total of 16 free-ranging swamp buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) were chemically captured by dart for the application of satellite tracking collars in tropical northern Australia; 7 animals were anesthetised with a thiafentanil-etorphine-azaperone (TEA) combination and 9 animals with a thiafentanil-azaperone (TA) combination. Anaesthesia was reversed with intravenous naltrexone. Mean dosages of etorphine and thiafentanil for animals in the TEA group were 0.01 mg/kg of each drug and mean dosage of thiafentanil for animals in the TA group was 0.02 mg/kg. Total dose per animal of azaperone and naltrexone was 80 mg and 150 mg, respectively. Anaesthetic monitoring was by physical observation of physiological variables, pulse oximetry and capnography. Blood laboratory parameters including creatine kinase (CK), aspartate transaminase (AST), serum bicarbonate and anion gap were measured. RESULTS All subject animals recovered well from anaesthesia despite the occurrence of subclinical acidosis in some patients. There was no significant difference between the treatment groups. Conversely, chase time had an adverse effect on body temperature, irrespective of the anaesthetic combination used. CONCLUSIONS Thiafentanil and azaperone, with or without etorphine, delivered rapid safe, effective, reversible field anaesthesia in healthy swamp buffalo.
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- B Bryant
- Taronga Western Plains Zoo, Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
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- Taronga Western Plains Zoo, Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia.,Australia Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Mosman, New South Wales, Australia
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Neve P, Barney JN, Buckley Y, Cousens RD, Graham S, Jordan NR, Lawton‐Rauh A, Liebman M, Mesgaran MB, Schut M, Shaw J, Storkey J, Baraibar B, Baucom RS, Chalak M, Childs DZ, Christensen S, Eizenberg H, Fernández‐Quintanilla C, French K, Harsch M, Heijting S, Harrison L, Loddo D, Macel M, Maczey N, Merotto A, Mortensen D, Necajeva J, Peltzer DA, Recasens J, Renton M, Riemens M, Sønderskov M, Williams M, Rew L. Reviewing research priorities in weed ecology, evolution and management: a horizon scan. Weed Res 2018; 58:250-258. [PMID: 30069065 PMCID: PMC6055875 DOI: 10.1111/wre.12304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2017] [Accepted: 02/05/2018] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
Abstract
Weedy plants pose a major threat to food security, biodiversity, ecosystem services and consequently to human health and wellbeing. However, many currently used weed management approaches are increasingly unsustainable. To address this knowledge and practice gap, in June 2014, 35 weed and invasion ecologists, weed scientists, evolutionary biologists and social scientists convened a workshop to explore current and future perspectives and approaches in weed ecology and management. A horizon scanning exercise ranked a list of 124 pre-submitted questions to identify a priority list of 30 questions. These questions are discussed under seven themed headings that represent areas for renewed and emerging focus for the disciplines of weed research and practice. The themed areas considered the need for transdisciplinarity, increased adoption of integrated weed management and agroecological approaches, better understanding of weed evolution, climate change, weed invasiveness and finally, disciplinary challenges for weed science. Almost all the challenges identified rested on the need for continued efforts to diversify and integrate agroecological, socio-economic and technological approaches in weed management. These challenges are not newly conceived, though their continued prominence as research priorities highlights an ongoing intransigence that must be addressed through a more system-oriented and transdisciplinary research agenda that seeks an embedded integration of public and private research approaches. This horizon scanning exercise thus set out the building blocks needed for future weed management research and practice; however, the challenge ahead is to identify effective ways in which sufficient research and implementation efforts can be directed towards these needs.
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- P Neve
- Rothamsted ResearchBiointeractions & Crop Protection DepartmentHarpendenHertfordshireUK
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology and Weed ScienceVirginia TechBlacksburgVAUSA
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- School of Natural Sciences, ZoologyTrinity College DublinDublinIreland
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- Department of Plant SciencesUniversity of CaliforniaDavisCAUSA
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- School of Social SciencesThe University of New South WalesSydneyNSWAustralia
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- Agronomy & Plant Genetics DepartmentUniversity of MinnesotaSt. PaulMNUSA
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- Department of Genetics and BiochemistryClemson UniversityClemsonSCUSA
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- Department of Plant SciencesUniversity of CaliforniaDavisCAUSA
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- Knowledge, Technology and Innovation GroupWageningen UniversityWageningenthe Netherlands
- International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)KigaliRwanda
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- School of Biological SciencesThe University of QueenslandBrisbaneQldAustralia
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- Rothamsted ResearchBiointeractions & Crop Protection DepartmentHarpendenHertfordshireUK
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- Plant Sciences DepartmentPenn State UniversityUniversity ParkPAUSA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of MichiganAnn ArborMIUSA
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- School of Agricultural and Resource EconomicsCentre for Environmental Economics & PolicyUniversity of Western AustraliaCrawleyWAAustralia
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- Department of Animal and Plant SciencesUniversity of SheffieldSheffieldUK
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- Department of Plant and Environmental SciencesUniversity of CopenhagenFrederiksbergDenmark
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Weed ResearchNewe Ya'ar Research CenterAgricultural Research Organization (ARO)Ramat YishayIsrael
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- School of Biological SciencesUniversity of WollongongWollongongNSWAustralia
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- Department of BiologyUniversity of WashingtonSeattleWAUSA
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- Wageningen University and ResearchLelystadthe Netherlands
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- Environment DepartmentUniversity of YorkYorkUK
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- Institute of Agro‐environmental and forest BiologyNational Research Council (IBAF‐CNR)LegnaroItaly
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- Molecular Interaction EcologyRadboud University NijmegenNijmegenthe Netherlands
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- Graduate Group in Plant ScienceSchool of AgricultureFederal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)Porto AlegreBrazil
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of MichiganAnn ArborMIUSA
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- Department of Plant PhysiologyFaculty of BiologyUniversity of LatviaRigaLatvia
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- Ecosystem Processes and Global ChangeLandcare ResearchLincolnNew Zealand
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- Horticulture, Botany and Landscaping DepartmentAgrotecnio, ETSEAUniversitat de LleidaLleidaSpain
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- Schools of Biological Sciences & Agriculture and EnvironmentAustralian Herbicide Resistance Initiative and Institute of AgricultureThe University of Western AustraliaCrawleyWAAustralia
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- Environment DepartmentUniversity of YorkYorkUK
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- Department of AgroecologyAarhus UniversityFlakkebjergDenmark
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- Michael Williams & Associates Pty LtdNatural resource Management Facilitators and StrategistsSydneyNSWAustralia
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Abrahms B, Jordan NR, Golabek KA, McNutt JW, Wilson AM, Brashares JS. Lessons from integrating behaviour and resource selection: activity-specific responses of African wild dogs to roads. Anim Conserv 2015. [DOI: 10.1111/acv.12235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- B. Abrahms
- Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management; University of California-Berkeley; Berkeley CA USA
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- Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences; University of New South Wales (UNSW); Sydney NSW Australia
- Taronga Western Plains Zoo; Wildlife Reproduction Centre; Taronga Conservation Society Australia; Dubbo NSW Australia
- Botswana Predator Conservation Trust; Maun Botswana
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- Botswana Predator Conservation Trust; Maun Botswana
- Wildlife Conservation Research Unit; University of Oxford; Tubney UK
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- Botswana Predator Conservation Trust; Maun Botswana
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- Structure and Motion Lab; Royal Veterinary College; University of London; London UK
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- Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management; University of California-Berkeley; Berkeley CA USA
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Grimsbo Jewett J, Sheaffer CC, Moon RD, Martin NP, Barnes DK, Breitbach DD, Jordan NR. A Survey of CRP Land in Minnesota: II. Weeds on CRP Land. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013. [DOI: 10.2134/jpa1996.0535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- J. Grimsbo Jewett
- Dep. of Agronomy and Plant Genetics; Univ. of Minnesota; 1991 Upper Buford Circle St. Paul MN 55108
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- Dep. of Agronomy and Plant Genetics; Univ. of Minnesota; 1991 Upper Buford Circle St. Paul MN 55108
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- Dep. of Entomology; Univ. of Minnesota; 1991 Upper Buford Circle St. Paul MN 55108
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- Dep. of Agronomy and Plant Genetics; Univ. of Minnesota; 1991 Upper Buford Circle St. Paul MN 55108
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- USDA-ARS Plant Science Res. Unit.; Univ. of Minnesota; 1991 Upper Buford Circle St. Paul MN 55108
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- Natural Resources Conservation Service-Minnesota; 375 Jackson St., Suite 600 St. Paul MN 55101-1854
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- Dep. of Agronomy and Plant Genetics; Univ. of Minnesota; 1991 Upper Buford Circle St. Paul MN 55108
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Jewett JG, Sheaffer CC, Moon RD, Martin NP, Barnes DK, Breitbach DD, Jordan NR. A Survey of CRP Land in Minnesota: I. Legume and Grass Persistence. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013. [DOI: 10.2134/jpa1996.0528] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- J. Grimsbo Jewett
- Dep. of Agronomy and Plant Genetics; Univ. of Minnesota; 1991 Upper Buford Circle St. Paul MN 55108
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- Dep. of Entomology; Univ. of Minnesota; 1991 Upper Buford Circle St. Paul MN 55108
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- Dep. of Entomology; Univ. of Minnesota; 1991 Upper Buford Circle St. Paul MN 55108
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- Dep. of Agronomy and Plant Genetics; Univ. of Minnesota; 1991 Upper Buford Circle St. Paul MN 55108
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- USDA-ARS Plant Science Res. Unit.; Univ. of Minnesota; 1991 Upper Buford Circle St. Paul MN 55108
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- Natural Resources Conservation Service-Minnesota; 375 Jackson St., Suite 600 St. Paul MN 55101-1854
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- Dep. of Agronomy and Plant Genetics; Univ. of Minnesota; 1991 Upper Buford Circle St. Paul MN 55108
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Russell AF, Young AJ, Spong G, Jordan NR, Clutton-Brock TH. Helpers increase the reproductive potential of offspring in cooperative meerkats. Proc Biol Sci 2007; 274:513-20. [PMID: 17476771 PMCID: PMC1766384 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2006] [Accepted: 08/05/2006] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
In both animal and human societies, individuals may forego personal reproduction and provide care to the offspring of others. Studies aimed at investigating the adaptive nature of such cooperative breeding systems in vertebrates typically calculate helper 'fitness' from relationships of helper numbers and offspring survival to independence. The aim of this study is to use observations and supplemental feeding experiments in cooperatively breeding meerkats, Suricata suricatta, to investigate whether helpers influence the long-term reproductive potential of offspring during adulthood. We show that helpers have a significant and positive influence on the probability that offspring gain direct reproductive success in their lifetimes. This effect arises because helpers both reduce the age at which offspring begin to reproduce as subordinates and increase the probability that they will compete successfully for alpha rank. Supplemental feeding experiments confirm the causality of these results. Our results suggest that one can neither discount the significance of helper effects when none is found nor necessarily estimate accurately the fitness benefit that helpers accrue, unless their effects on offspring are considered in the long term.
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- A F Russell
- Department of Animal & Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK.
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Clutton-Brock TH, Hodge SJ, Spong G, Russell AF, Jordan NR, Bennett NC, Sharpe LL, Manser MB. Intrasexual competition and sexual selection in cooperative mammals. Nature 2007; 444:1065-8. [PMID: 17183322 DOI: 10.1038/nature05386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 255] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2006] [Accepted: 10/23/2006] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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In most animals, the sex that invests least in its offspring competes more intensely for access to the opposite sex and shows greater development of secondary sexual characters than the sex that invests most. However, in some mammals where females are the primary care-givers, females compete more frequently or intensely with each other than males. A possible explanation is that, in these species, the resources necessary for successful female reproduction are heavily concentrated and intrasexual competition for breeding opportunities is more intense among females than among males. Intrasexual competition between females is likely to be particularly intense in cooperative breeders where a single female monopolizes reproduction in each group. Here, we use data from a twelve-year study of wild meerkats (Suricata suricatta), where females show high levels of reproductive skew, to show that females gain greater benefits from acquiring dominant status than males and traits that increase competitive ability exert a stronger influence on their breeding success. Females that acquire dominant status also develop a suite of morphological, physiological and behavioural characteristics that help them to control other group members. Our results show that sex differences in parental investment are not the only mechanism capable of generating sex differences in reproductive competition and emphasize the extent to which competition for breeding opportunities between females can affect the evolution of sex differences and the operation of sexual selection.
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- T H Clutton-Brock
- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK.
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