Plasticity in foraging strategies of inshore birds: how Little Penguins maintain body reserves while feeding offspring

Breeding animals face important time and energy constraints when caring for themselves and their offspring. For long-lived species, life-history theory predicts that parents should favor survival over current reproductive attempts, thus investing more into their own maintenance than the provisioning...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Ecology (Durham) 2011-10, Vol.92 (10), p.1909-1916
Hauptverfasser:	Saraux, Claire, Robinson-Laverick, Sarah M, Le Maho, Yvon, Ropert-Coudert, Yan, Chiaradia, André
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	adults Animal and plant ecology animal breeding Animal ecology Animal feeding behavior Animal, plant and microbial ecology Animals Aves bimodal trips Biodiversity Biological and medical sciences Birds Body condition Body Weight - physiology Breeding breeding sites chick rearing chicks data collection Ecosystem energy Environmental Sciences Eudyptula minor Feeding Behavior - physiology feeding frequency Foraging foraging strategies Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology General aspects life history Life Sciences Little Penguin Marine Marine ecology Nesting Behavior - physiology Nutritional Status - physiology parental investment parents Penguins Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia Population ecology Populations and Evolution progeny rearing Reproduction Sea birds seabirds Spheniscidae - physiology Time Factors trip duration Vertebrates: general zoology, morphology, phylogeny, systematics, cytogenetics, geographical distribution
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