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Enough for all: no mating effort adjustment to varying mate availability in a gift-giving spider

Published:2019-06-19 Issue:5 Volume:30 Page:1461-1468
ISSN:1045-2249
Container-title:Behavioral Ecology
language:en
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Author:

Magris Martina¹^ORCID,Tuni Cristina²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Biology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

2. Department of Biology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany

Abstract

Males of a gift-giving spider do not modify their allocation to reproduction when mating opportunities vary. Due to their costly courtship via provision of food gifts to females, with high female availability males should reduce their reproductive investment per partner to avoid exhausting their energetic budget too early. Our findings suggest instead that males may be able to enlarge their total reproductive budget, possibly drawing resources from their food gifts by partially feeding on them.

Funder

University of Padova

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Animal Science and Zoology,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Link

http://academic.oup.com/beheco/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/beheco/arz102/28842047/arz102.pdf

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