Behavioral rules underlying coordination of care
How do parents work together when raising their offspring? Recent work suggests that coordination of care has important implications in the resolution of sexual conflict, but we still know very little about how parents interact with each other. I use automated radio-tacking and GPS systems to explore how parents coordinates provisioning movements and how socio-ecological factors affect provisioning patterns.
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How do parents work together when raising their offspring? Recent work suggests that coordination of care has important implications in the resolution of sexual conflict, but we still know very little about how parents interact with each other. I use automated radio-tacking and GPS systems to explore how parents coordinates provisioning movements and how socio-ecological factors affect provisioning patterns.
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- Baldan, D., Beccardi, M., Fuertes-Recuero, M., Schiavinato, M., Zampa, L., Pilastro, A., Cantarero, A. (2023) Repeatable negotiation rules? Only females show repeatable response to partner removal in a brood-provisioning songbird. Biology letters 19, 20230136.
- Baldan, D., & van Loon, E. E. (2022). Songbird parents coordinate offspring provisioning at fine spatio-temporal scales. Journal of Animal Ecology, 91, 1316–1326.
- Baldan, D., & Ouyang, J. Q. (2020). Urban resources limit pair coordination over offspring provisioning. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 15888.
- Baldan, D., Curk, T., Hinde, C. A., & Lessells, C. M. (2019). Alternation of nest visits varies with experimentally manipulated workload in brood-provisioning great tits. Animal Behaviour, 156, 139-146.
- Baldan, D., Hinde, C. A., & Lessells, C. M. (2019). Turn-taking between provisioning parents: partitioning alternation. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7(448).
Evolutionary consequences of parental strategies
Does coordination of care promote cooperation between parents? What are the fitness consequences of different parental systems? I use the rock sparrow (Petronia petronia) as a avian model species to investigate the mechanisms and consequences of parental care strategies. The rock sparrow is a species with mixed strategies ranging from biparental care to male and female desertion.
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Does coordination of care promote cooperation between parents? What are the fitness consequences of different parental systems? I use the rock sparrow (Petronia petronia) as a avian model species to investigate the mechanisms and consequences of parental care strategies. The rock sparrow is a species with mixed strategies ranging from biparental care to male and female desertion.
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- Baldan, D., & Griggio, M. (2019). Pair coordination is related to later brood desertion in a provisioning songbird. Animal Behaviour, 156, 147-152.
Responsiveness rules to changes in socio-environmental factors
How do individuals behaviorally and physiologically respond to changes in external conditions? I use behavioral and endocrine reaction norm approaches to study how organisms respond to the environment and to the social partner during reproduction.
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How do individuals behaviorally and physiologically respond to changes in external conditions? I use behavioral and endocrine reaction norm approaches to study how organisms respond to the environment and to the social partner during reproduction.
Related publications
- Baldan, D., Beccardi, M., Fuertes-Recuero, M., Schiavinato, M., Zampa, L., Pilastro, A., Cantarero, A. (2023) Repeatable negotiation rules? Only females show repeatable response to partner removal in a brood-provisioning songbird. Biology letters 19, 20230136.
- Schiavinato, M., Griggio, M., Pilastro, A. A., Baldan, D. (2023). Compensatory responses differ between parental tasks in a songbird species. Animal Behaviour, 199, 141-149.
- Baldan, D., Negash, M., & Ouyang, J. Q. (2021). Are individuals consistent? Endocrine reaction norms under different ecological challenges. Journal of Experimental Biology. 224, jeb240499.
- Grant, A. R., Baldan, D., Kimball, M. G., Malisch, J. L., & Ouyang, J. Q. (2020). Across time and space: Hormonal variation across temporal and spatial scales in relation to nesting success. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 292, 113462.
- Ouyang, J. Q., Baldan, D., Munguia, C., & Davies, S. (2019). Genetic inheritance and environment determine endocrine plasticity to urban living. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286(1908), 20191215.