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- Catherine Sheard, Sally E. Street, Susan D. Healy, Camille Troisi (UGent) , Andrew D. Clark, Antonia Yovcheva, Alexis Trébaol, Karina Vanadzina and Kevin N. Lala
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- Abstract
- MotivationA well-constructed nest is a key element of successful reproduction in most species of birds, and nest morphology varies widely across the class. Macroecological and macroevolutionary studies tend to group nest design into a small number of discrete categories, often based on taxonomic inference. In reality, however, many species display considerable intraspecific variation in their nest-building behaviour, and broad-level categories may include several functionally distinct nest types. To address this imprecision in the literature and facilitate future studies of broad-scale variation in avian parental care, we here introduce a detailed, global comparative database of nest building in birds, together with preliminary correlations between these traits and species-level environmental variables.Main types of variables containedWe present species-level data for nest structure, location, height, material composition, sex of builder, building time and nest dimensions.Spatial location and grainGlobal. Maps are presented at the 10 x 10 level.Time period and grainIncluded species are generally extant, although we present some data for recently extinct taxa. The data were collected in 2017-2021 and was drawn from secondary sources published in 1992-2021.Major taxa and level of measurementPartial or complete trait data is presented for 8601 species of birds, representing 36 of 36 orders and 239 of 243 families.Software formatData have been uploaded as Supplementary Material in .csv format and are separated by species and source for all traits (Dataset S1, and Metadata) as well as summarized at the species level for the major structure and location variables (Dataset S2, and Metadata).
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- Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, bird nests, nest height, nest location, nest materials, nest structure, parental care
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01HGJTXS9YF113W380T0JRA1AS
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- Sheard, Catherine, et al. “Nest Traits for the World’s Birds.” GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY, vol. 33, no. 2, 2024, pp. 206–14, doi:10.1111/geb.13783.
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- Sheard, C., Street, S. E., Healy, S. D., Troisi, C., Clark, A. D., Yovcheva, A., … Lala, K. N. (2024). Nest traits for the world’s birds. GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY, 33(2), 206–214. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13783
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- Sheard, Catherine, Sally E. Street, Susan D. Healy, Camille Troisi, Andrew D. Clark, Antonia Yovcheva, Alexis Trébaol, Karina Vanadzina, and Kevin N. Lala. 2024. “Nest Traits for the World’s Birds.” GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY 33 (2): 206–14. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13783.
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- Sheard, Catherine, Sally E. Street, Susan D. Healy, Camille Troisi, Andrew D. Clark, Antonia Yovcheva, Alexis Trébaol, Karina Vanadzina, and Kevin N. Lala. 2024. “Nest Traits for the World’s Birds.” GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY 33 (2): 206–214. doi:10.1111/geb.13783.
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- 1.Sheard C, Street SE, Healy SD, Troisi C, Clark AD, Yovcheva A, et al. Nest traits for the world’s birds. GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY. 2024;33(2):206–14.
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- [1]C. Sheard et al., “Nest traits for the world’s birds,” GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 206–214, 2024.
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