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The influence of a hot environment on parental cooperation of a ground-nesting shorebird, the Kentish plover Charadrius alexandrinus

BACKGROUND: Parental care often increases offspring survival, but is costly to the parents. A trade-off between the cost and benefit of care is expected, so that when care provisioning by both parents is essential for the success of young, for instance in extremely cold or hot environments, the pare...

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Autores principales: AlRashidi, Monif, Kosztolányi, András, Küpper, Clemens, Cuthill, Innes C, Javed, Salim, Székely, Tamás
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2819062/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20148101
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-7-1