Rainfall is associated with divorce in the socially monogamous Seychelles warbler.

ABSTRACT: Divorce-terminating a pair bond whilst both members are alive-is a mating strategy observed in many socially monogamous species often linked to poor reproductive success. As environmental factors directly affect individual condition and reproductive performance, they can indirectly influence divorce. Given current climate change, understanding how environmental fluctuations affect partnership stability has important implications, including for conservation. Yet, the relationship between the environment and divorce remains largely unstudied. We examined the influence of temporal environmental variability on the prevalence of within- and between-season divorce and the possible underlying mechanisms in a socially monogamous passerine. Analysing 16 years of data from a longitudinal dataset, we

SUBMITTER: Bentlage AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11730830 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature