The impact of helping experience on helper life-history and fitness in a cooperatively breeding bird
Creators
- 1. University of Leeds
- 2. University of Sheffield
- 3. University of Groningen
- 4. University of East Anglia
Description
The data and accompanying .R scripts were used to test whether having experience as a helper affected a number of different breeding and fitness related parameters in the Seychelles warbler (Acrocephalus sechellensis) in the paper "The impact of helping experience on helper life-history and fitness in a cooperatively breeding bird."
Datasets
statusInfo.xlsx: data collected over a focal individual's lifetime.
natalInfo.xlsx: data pertaining to the natal environment of the focal bird.
lastSeen.xlsx: data used to calculate when the bird was last seen alive.
summerIndex.xlsx: data used to determine whether a particular field period was during a summer or winter season.
territoryQuality.xlsx: data used to determine the territory quality of each territory during a particular field period.
Statistical analyses
experiencePrep.R: the script used to prepare the data and calculate the necessary model variables prior to running the analyses.
experienceAnalyses.R: the script used to run the analyses and generate the related graphs.
More detailed information regarding the contents of each dataset can be found in the READ.ME
From this, we found that helping experience had no significant association with any of the metrics considered, except that individuals with helping experience had an older age at first dominance, and dominant females with helping experience had longer lifespans than those that had never helped. In addition, we found that females with co-breeding experience produced more adult offspring (≥1 year old) after acquiring dominance, and had a higher lifetime reproductive success than females that had never co-bred.
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Funding provided by: Natural Environment Research Council
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Funding provided by: Leeds Doctoral Scholarship*
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Funding provided by: Priestly Centre for Climate Research*
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