Publication Details |
| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Journals |
| Title (Primary) | Does sexual selection influence population trends in European birds? |
| Author | Prinzing, A.; Brändle, M.; Pfeifer, R.; Brandl, R. |
| Source Titel | Evolutionary Ecology Research |
| Year | 2002 |
| Department | BZF |
| Volume | 4 |
| Page From | 49 |
| Page To | 60 |
| Language | englisch |
| Abstract | Sexual selection may interact with anthropogenic impact and influence the population dynamics of bird species. First, there may be a trade-off between investment in traits under sexual selection and traits under natural selection. Thus, sexual selection may impede the response of species to anthropogenic changes of the natural selection regime within habitats. Second, sexual selection may reduce the effective population size. Thus, sexual selection may increase the risk of local extinction due to anthropogenic habitat fragmentation. We tested both hypotheses for Central European non-Passeriformes. We inferred sexual selection from sexual dimorphism of plumage and body size. These two surrogates of sexual selection were not correlated. We found no difference in the population trends between monomorphic and dimorphic species. Furthermore, we found no clear interaction between population size and the effect of dimorphism on population trends. We conclude that sexual selection had no negative effect on population trends. |
| Persistent UFZ Identifier | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=5900 |
| Prinzing, A., Brändle, M., Pfeifer, R., Brandl, R. (2002): Does sexual selection influence population trends in European birds? Evol. Ecol. Res. 4 , 49 - 60 |
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