caa a22 4500 605462690 CHVBK 20210128100249.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10211-014-0191-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10211-014-0191-7 Personality and density affect nest defence and nest survival in the great tit [Elektronische Daten] [Jolanta Vrublevska, Tatjana Krama, Markus Rantala, Pranas Mierauskas, Todd Freeberg, Indrikis Krams] Recent studies suggest that individual variation in behaviour of prey individuals may cause distinctive responses to nest predators and cooperation with conspecifics. We assessed individual differences during a novel object test and whether these responses were related to nest failure and survival of females during incubation. We additionally carried out experimental trials in natural field conditions using a stuffed pine marten, a principal nest predator, to test for a relationship between neophobia and mobbing predators. Our results show that antipredator responses of breeding great tits are dependent on their personality and personality type of neighbouring conspecifics. We found that neophilic individuals (those that rapidly resumed feeding of nestlings in the presence of a novel object) have an advantage over neophobic individuals (those that slowly resumed feeding of nestlings in the presence of a novel object) in their reproductive success, as measured in numbers of successful nests and of females that survived. Furthermore, neophilic-neophilic pairs exhibited stronger antipredator mobbing responses than neophobic-neophobic pairs. Results show that consistent individual differences in response against novel objects and antipredator behaviour are related, and that these responses are important predictors of nest failure in breeding great tits. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg and ISPA, 2014 Nest defence nationallicence Mobbing behaviour nationallicence Breeding success nationallicence Novel object nationallicence Neophobia nationallicence Great tit nationallicence Parus major nationallicence Vrublevska Jolanta Institute of Systematic Biology, University of Daugavpils, 5401, Daugavpils, Latvia aut Krama Tatjana Institute of Systematic Biology, University of Daugavpils, 5401, Daugavpils, Latvia aut Rantala Markus Department of Biology, University of Turku, 20024, Turku, Finland aut Mierauskas Pranas Department of Environment Policy, Mykolas Romeris University, 08303, Vilnius, Lithuania aut Freeberg Todd Institute of Systematic Biology, University of Daugavpils, 5401, Daugavpils, Latvia aut Krams Indrikis Institute of Systematic Biology, University of Daugavpils, 5401, Daugavpils, Latvia aut acta ethologica Springer Berlin Heidelberg 18/2(2015-06-01), 111-120 0873-9749 18:2<111 2015 18 10211 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10211-014-0191-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10211-014-0191-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Vrublevska Jolanta Institute of Systematic Biology, University of Daugavpils, 5401, Daugavpils, Latvia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Krama Tatjana Institute of Systematic Biology, University of Daugavpils, 5401, Daugavpils, Latvia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rantala Markus Department of Biology, University of Turku, 20024, Turku, Finland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mierauskas Pranas Department of Environment Policy, Mykolas Romeris University, 08303, Vilnius, Lithuania aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Freeberg Todd Institute of Systematic Biology, University of Daugavpils, 5401, Daugavpils, Latvia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Krams Indrikis Institute of Systematic Biology, University of Daugavpils, 5401, Daugavpils, Latvia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- acta ethologica Springer Berlin Heidelberg 18/2(2015-06-01), 111-120 0873-9749 18:2<111 2015 18 10211