The costs of parental care: a meta‐analysis of the trade‐off between parental effort and survival in birds

A fundamental premise of life‐history theory is that organisms that increase current reproductive investment suffer increased mortality. Possibly the most studied life‐history phenotypic relationship is the trade‐off between parental effort and survival. However, evidence supporting this trade‐off i...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of evolutionary biology 2012-09, Vol.25 (9), p.1911-1917
Hauptverfasser: Santos, E. S. A., Nakagawa, S.
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