Eggshell spotting does not predict male incubation but marks thinner areas of a Shorebird's shells

Auk

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 26-35

  Bulla, Martin ^a,d   Šálek, Miroslav ^b   Gosler, Andrew G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biparental wader; Eggshell coloration; Eggshell thickness; Male parental care; Northern Lapwing; Protoporphyrin pigmentation; Signaling function hypothesis; Structural function hypothesis; Vanellus vanellus

Indexed keywords

EGG PRODUCTION; EGGSHELL; INCUBATION; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; PARENTAL CARE; PIGMENT; TAXONOMY; WADER;

AVES; PUNCTUM BLANDIANUM; VANELLUS VANELLUS;

EID: 84858697404     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/auk.2012.11090     Document Type: Article

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