caa a22 4500 477091121 CHVBK 20180405111515.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01237685 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01237685 Haskell David Section of Ecology and Systematics, Division of Biological Sciences, Cornell University, 14853, Ithaca, NY, USA aut Do bright colors at nests incur a cost due to predation? [Elektronische Daten] [David Haskell] Summary: Birds show much interspecific variation in the coloration and brightness of their plumage. I examine the hypothesis that selection due to predation on incubating birds and their nest contents can explain part of this diversity. First, I argue that rather than using absolute rates of nest predation to make predictions about the costs of conspicuous colours, we should measure experimentally whether increases in plumage conspicuousness elevate rates of nest predation. Second, I present experimental data investigating the cost of red and brown colour at ground and tree nests. These data provide the first evidence that bright colours do attract predators to nests and that, in addition, this cost varies according to the nesting site. Natural selection seems to most strongly oppose the evolution of conspicuous colours in ground-nesting birds. Chapman & Hall, 1996 predation nationallicence natural selection nationallicence sexual selection nationallicence plumage coloration nationallicence artificial nest nationallicence Evolutionary Ecology Kluwer Academic Publishers 10/3(1996-05-01), 285-288 0269-7653 10:3<285 1996 10 10682 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01237685 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01237685 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Haskell David Section of Ecology and Systematics, Division of Biological Sciences, Cornell University, 14853, Ithaca, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Evolutionary Ecology Kluwer Academic Publishers 10/3(1996-05-01), 285-288 0269-7653 10:3<285 1996 10 10682 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer