Do uniparental sanderlings Calidris alba increase egg heat input to compensate for low nest attentiveness?

Birds breeding in cold environments regularly have to interrupt incubation to forage, causing a trade-off between two mutually exclusive behaviours. Earlier studies showed that uniparental Arctic sandpipers overall spend less time incubating their eggs than biparental species, but interspecific diff...

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Main Authors: Jeroen Reneerkens, Kirsten Grond, Hans Schekkerman, Ingrid Tulp, Theunis Piersma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3036718?pdf=render