Discriminating uniparental and biparental breeding strategies by monitoring nest temperature

• Published in: Ibis
• Main Authors: Moreau, Jérôme, Perroud, Lucie, Bollache, Loïc, Yannic, Glenn, Teixeira, Maria, Schmidt, Niels Martin, Reneerkens, Jeroen, Gilg, Olivier
• Other Authors: Institut Polaire Français Paul Emile Victor, Aarhus Universitets Forskningsfond
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2017
• Subjects: Recess; Calidris alba; Sanderling
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12507; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fibi.12507; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ibi.12507

Birds exhibit a wide diversity of breeding strategies. During incubation or chick‐rearing, parental care can be either uniparental, by either the male or the female, or biparental. Understanding the selective pressures that drive these different strategies represents an exciting challenge for ecolog...