Male-biased reproductive effort in a long-lived seabird.

• Main Authors: Mauck, Robert A, Zangmeister, Jennifer L., Cercihara, Jack, Huntington, Chalres E, Haussmann, Mark F.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Bucknell Digital Commons 2011
• Subjects: life-history trade-offs; parental effort; ptilochronology; sex-specific reproductive effort; Behavior and Ethology; Biology; Evolution; Canada; Island Bay; Bowdoin; Kent Island; Oceanodroma leucorhoa
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/fac_journ/101

Background: In dimorphic seabirds, the larger sex tends to provision more than the smaller sex. In contrast, monogamy and biparental care are often associated with equal effort between the sexes. However, the few studies that have tested sex-specific effort in monomorphic seabirds have primarily exa...