Parental care mitigates carry-over effects of poor early conditions on offspring growth

Sonya K. Auer and Thomas E. Martin

Behavioral Ecology, 2017, vol. 28, issue 4, 1176-1182

Abstract: Lay SummaryEarly environmental conditions can have important long-term consequences for fitness. These carry-over effects often differ among species but the reason for such interspecific variation is not clear. We experimentally manipulated incubation temperatures in 4 sympatric bird species and show that carry-over effects differ among species according to parental care responses.

Keywords: egg temperature; environmental variation; experimental cooling; delayed effects; inter-specific variation; life history trade-offs; parental behavior; passerines (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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