Parents are a Drag: Long-Lived Birds Share the Cost of Increased Foraging Effort with Their Offspring, but Males Pass on More of the Costs than Females

Life history theory predicts that parents will balance benefits from investment in current offspring against benefits from future reproductive investments. Long-lived organisms are therefore less likely to increase parental effort when environmental conditions deteriorate. To investigate the effect...

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Autores principales: Jacobs, Shoshanah R., Elliott, Kyle Hamish, Gaston, Anthony J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3559872/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23382921
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0054594

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3559872/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23382921
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0054594

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