The energetic costs of egg heating constrain incubation attendance but do not determine daily energy expenditure in the pectoral sandpiper

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 498-507

  Cresswell, Will ^a   Holt, S ^a   Reid, J M ^b,g   Whitfield, D P ^c   Mellanby, R J ^d   Norton, D ^e   Waldron, S ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c SCOTTISH NATURAL HERITAGE   (United Kingdom)

^d Dept of Clin Veterinary Medicine ^*  (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^f SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Daily energy expenditure; Incubation; Nest attendance; Pectoral sandpiper

Indexed keywords

BREEDING; ENERGETICS; HEATING; INCUBATION; NESTING;

AVES; CALIDRIS MELANOTOS; SCOLOPACIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 2942592253     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arh042     Document Type: Article

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