Behavioral and physiological responses to male handicap in chick-rearing black-legged kittiwakes

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1156-1165

  Leclaire, Sarah ^a,b   Bourret, Vincent ^a,b   Wagner, Richard H ^c   Hatch, Scott A ^d   Helfenstein, Fabrice ^e   Chastel, Olivier ^a   Danchin, Étienne ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

body condition; cost of reproduction; feather clipping; parental effort; Rissa tridactyla

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGGRESSION; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BODY CONDITION; BROOD REARING; CLIPPING; FEATHER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLIGHT; HANDICAP PRINCIPLE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MORTALITY; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; SEABIRD; SIBLING; STEROL; SURVIVAL; TRADE-OFF;

LARUS; RISSA TRIDACTYLA;

EID: 80455167936     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arr149     Document Type: Article

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