Ventilation or nest defense - Parental care trade-offs in a fish with male care

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 864-873

  Lissåker, Maria ^a   Kvarnemo, Charlotta ^a,b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fanning expenditure; Filial cannibalism; Low oxygen; Parental effort; Reproductive success

Indexed keywords

BROOD REARING; CANNIBALISM; CRAB; EGG PREDATION; FISH; MATERNAL CARE; NEST GUARDING; OXYGEN;

ANIMALIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); POMATOSCHISTUS MINUTUS;

EID: 33748643200     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-006-0230-0     Document Type: Article

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