A review of the potential of surface flow constructed wetlands to enhance macroinvertebrate diversity in agricultural landscapes with particular reference to Integrated Constructed Wetlands (ICWs) |
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Authors: | Gustavo Becerra-Jurado Rory Harrington Mary Kelly-Quinn |
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Institution: | 1.Department of Zoology,Karl-Franzens-University Graz,Graz,Austria |
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Abstract: | Discriminating female mate preferences enhance the variance in reproductive success among males of a population and create
a potential for sexual selection, which can account for trait evolution and diversification. Fish color patterns are among
the prime targets of mate choice-driven sexual selection. Populations of the cichlid Tropheus from Lake Tanganyika display remarkable geographic color pattern variation, but the role of female choice in their rapid
and rich phenotypic diversification is unclear. Males and females establish a pair bond prior to spawning monogamously, but
as brood care is strictly maternal, female investment in reproduction is high and the operational sex ratio is male-biased.
Therefore, variance in male reproductive success can accrue if individual males succeed repeatedly in securing a mate. To
test this prediction in the red colored Tropheus moorii “Chimba”, four pairs of males were presented to a series of females and female mate preferences were inferred from pairwise
interactions. There was a significant difference in mating success between the males of each pair (P < 0.001 over all trials), as—with one exception—females shared preferences for the same males. Male courtship activity was
strongly correlated with female choice. Our experiment suggests that female choice contributes to the variance in male reproductive
success in the tested population. |
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