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Temporal components of
interspecific interactions
The research presented in this thesis was conducted at the Conservation Ecology Group (Conseco), part of the Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (Gelifes), University of Groningen
The study was funded by the University of Groningen and the Dobberke foundation for comparative psychology (to JMS and CB)
Printing was supported by the University of Groningen
Lay-out: Dick Visser
Figures: Jelmer Samplonius and Marion Nicolaus Photos: Jelmer Samplonius and Richard Ubels Cover design: Maria Siemensma
Printed by: GVO drukkers & vormgevers B.V., Ede ISBN: 978-94-034-0786-9
Temporal components of
interspecific interactions
Proefschrift
ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
op gezag van de
rector magnificus prof. dr. E. Sterken
en volgens besluit van het College voor Promoties.
De openbare verdediging zal plaatsvinden op
vrijdag 13 juli 2018 om 11:00 uur
door
Jelmer Menno Samplonius
geboren op 28 januari 1985
te Leeuwarden
Prof. dr. S. Verhulst Prof. dr. B. Helm Prof. dr. T. Coulson
Contents
Chapter 1 Background and general introduction 7
Box A A case of a three species mixed brood after two interspecific nest take-overs 23
Part 1. An intertrophic perspective on asynchrony, prey choice and offspring condition
Chapter 2 Phenological mismatch and ontogenetic diet shifts interactively affect offspring 31 condition in a passerine
Part 2. Differential adjustment to climate change between resident and migrant birds
Chapter 3 Phenological sensitivity to climate change is higher in resident than in migrant 57 bird populations among European cavity breeders
Part 3. Social information use in habitat selection
Chapter 4 Competitor phenology as a social cue in breeding site selection 81
Chapter 5 Nest site preference depends on the relative density of conspecifics and 97
heterospecifics in wild birds
Box B Does territory owner aggression offer an alternative explanation to patterns in 111 heterospecific information use studies? A comment on Slagsvold & Wiebe
Part 4. Fitness consequences of phenological overlap between species
Chapter 6 Climate change affects fatal competition between two bird species 121
Box C Great tit aggression toward simulated intruders declines over the course of 133
the breeding season
Chapter 7 Does phenological synchrony with an interspecific competitor affect 139
competitive outcomes during the nestling phase?
Chapter 8 General discussion and synthesis 157
References 167
Samenvatting 183
Acknowledgements (Dankwoord) 189
Affiliations of co-authors 194
