Submission for Ecology Letters; special issue
Ecological & Evolutionary
Insights From Very Long-Term Studies
TITLE: Causes and consequences of
divorce in a long-lived socially monogamous bird
AUTHORS
Frigg J. D. Speelman1,2; f.j.d.speelman@rug.nl
Terry Burke3; t.a.burke@sheffield.ac.uk
Jan Komdeur1; j.komdeur@rug.nl
David S. Richardson4,5; david.richardson@uea.ac.uk
Hannah. L. Dugdale1; h.l.dugdale@rug.nl
AFFILIATIONS
- University of Groningen, Groningen Institute of Evolutionary Life
Sciences, The Netherlands
- Macquarie University, School of Biological Sciences, Sydney, Australia
- University of Sheffield, School of Biosciences, Sheffield, UK
- University of East Anglia, Biological Sciences, Norwich, UK
- Nature Seychelles, Mahé, Republic of Seychelles
STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP
FJDS and HLD conceived the study design and methodology, with input from
DSR. FJDS performed the analyses, with input from HLD. FJDS wrote the
manuscript, with input from HLD, DSR and JK. DSR organised (and with
many others - see acknowledgments) undertook fieldwork. Molecular
parentage assignment methods were developed and undertaken by DSR and
HLD. HLD, DSR, JK, and TB managed the long-term Seychelles warbler study
system and database including gaining the relevant funding. All authors
gave final approval for submission.
DATA ACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT
Data and code are available on Figshare. For the reviewing process, this
following link can be used to access the data:
https://figshare.com/s/484c4a7293eda21275d0
Once the manuscript is accepted for publication, data will be made
publicly accessible with the following DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.25033811
RUNNING TITLE
Divorce in a long-lived bird
KEYWORDS
Seychelles warbler, Acrocephalus sechellensis , mate fidelity,
mate switching, widowing, partnerships, social monogamy, reproductive
success, age, sex-specific
WORD COUNT
Abstract: 150
Main text: 4999
References: 72
3 figures, 3 tables, 0 text boxes
CORRESPONDING AUTHORS
Frigg J.D. Speelman
fjdspeelman@gmail.com
+61428518204
Hannah L. Dugdale
h.l.dugdale@rug.nl
+31 50 36 39683
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We thank the Seychelles Bureau of Standards and the Department of
Environment for fieldwork permission and permits for the export of
samples. We are also grateful to Nature Seychelles for facilitating
fieldwork on Cousin Island. We thank Simon C. Griffith for insightful
input while conceptualising the study. We thank all the fieldworkers and
technicians that contributed to the Seychelles warbler project, without
them the current long-term dataset would not exist. FJDS was funded by a
PhD scholarship from the University of Groningen and Macquarie
University, the Lucie Burgers Foundation, Ecology Fund Grant of the
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and by the Dobberke
grant of the Dr. J.L. Dobberke Foundation. The long-term data gathering
that enabled this study was supported by various NERC grants:
NE/B504106/1 to TAB and DSR, NE/I021748/1 to HLD, NE/P011284/1 to HLD
and DSR, and NE/F02083X/1, NE/K005502/1 and NE/S010939/1 to DSR; as well
as a NWO Rubicon 825.09.013 to HLD, NWO visitors grant 040.11.232 to JK
and HLD, and NWO TOP grant 854.11.003 and NWO VICI 823.01.014 to JK.