Co‐BreeD: A milestone resource for studies on cooperative breeding

Čulina, Antica (2025) Co‐BreeD: A milestone resource for studies on cooperative breeding. Journal of Animal Ecology, 95 (1). pp. 17-20. ISSN 0021-8790

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Abstract

Research Highlight: Ben Mocha, Y., Woith, M., Scemama de Gialluly, S., Bruscagnin, L., Kestel, N., Markman, S., Drobniak, S. M., Baglione, V., Boersma, J., Cousseau, L., Covas, R., Braga de Miranda, G. H., Dey, C. J., Doutrelant, C., Gula, R., Heinsohn, R., Keynan, O., Kingma, S. A., Leitão, A. V., … Griesser, M. (2025). An integrative, peer-reviewed open-source cooperative-breeding database (Co-BreeD). Journal of Animal Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.70154. The Cooperative-Breeding Database (Co-BreeD) is an open, peer-reviewed resource that collects data on cooperative breeding across birds and mammals, including humans. As such, it serves as a valuable resource for studies on sociality and cooperation. Currently, Co-BreeD provides population-level data on nearly 40,000 breeding events from 316 species and is growing. The database allows for cooperative breeding to be treated as a continuous rather than binary trait, and at finer spatial and temporal scales, enabling detailed exploration of the ecological and evolutionary drivers of cooperation. This novel approach revealed that alloparental care, and hence cooperative breeding, is likely more widespread than previously recognised. The importance of curated, high-quality, and accessible data across ecology and evolution is becoming evident; Co-BreeD has great potential to contribute to such collaborative, reproducible, and robust research.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	"This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: [Culina, A. (2026). Co-BreeD: A milestone resource for studies on cooperative breeding. Journal of Animal Ecology, 95, 17–20. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.70205], which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.70205]. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions."
Uncontrolled Keywords:	animals; cooperation; standards
Subjects:	NATURAL SCIENCES > Biology
Divisions:	Division for Marine and Enviromental Research
Projects:	Project title Project leader Project code Project type Unaprijeđenje istraživanja u ekologiji pomoću otvorene znanosti i meta-znanosti – EcoOpen Antica Čulina IP‐2022‐10‐2872 HRZZ
Depositing User:	Antica Čulina
Date Deposited:	14 Jan 2026 09:00
URI:	http://fulir.irb.hr/id/eprint/10625
DOI:	10.1111/1365-2656.70205

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