Flexible parents: joint effects of handicapping and brood size manipulation on female parental care in Nicrophorus vespilloides
Parental care is highly variable, reflecting that parents make flexible decisions in response to variation in the cost of care to themselves and the benefit to their offspring. Much of the evidence that parents respond to such variation derives from handicapping and brood size manipulations, the sep...
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Published in | Journal of evolutionary biology Vol. 31; no. 5; pp. 646 - 656 |
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Main Authors | , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Switzerland
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
01.05.2018
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