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Providing longer post-fledging periods increases offspring survival at the expense of future fecundity

The cost of reproduction is a key concept in life-history trade-offs. However, our understanding of the reproductive costs is biased towards measures of reproductive effort obtained before offspring independence. During the post-fledging dependence period (PFDP), it is well known that parents feed a...

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Autores principales: López-Idiáquez, David, Vergara, Pablo, Fargallo, Juan Antonio, Martínez-Padilla, Jesús
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6130873/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30199538
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0203152