supported by the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Special Fund(Biodiversity Monitoring and Network Construction along Lancang-Mekong River Basin project);Biodiversity Investigation,Observation,and Assessment Program(2019-2023)of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China;CAS 135(2017XTBG-F03)。
DEAR EDITOR,Parents may adjust their breeding time to optimize reproductive output and reduce reproductive costs associated with unpredictable climatic conditions,especially in the context of global warming.The breedi...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31572257Detail to H.J.H.,31660617Detail to L.W.W.,31472013Detail and 31970427Detail to W.L.);Guangdong Academy of Sciences(GDAS)Special Project of Science and Technology Development(2018GDASCX-0107);We are grateful to Yang Liu and Zhe-Chun Zhang from Sun Yat-Sen University,and Kang Huang from Northwest University for their kind help with parental analysis and constructive comments.We would like to thank Jun-Tao Hu for assistance in figure preparation.We also thank Ian Will from the University of California,Berkeley,USA,and Ai-Wu Jiang,De-Meng Jiang,Qiu-Li Huang,and Yun-Gao Hu for their assistance with fieldwork.
DEAR EDITOR,Previous work based on molecular evidence has shown that most socially monogamous birds follow a genetic polyandrous mating system.However,our knowledge about avian mating systems is heavily biased toward ...