Experimentally delayed hatching triggers a magnified stress response in a long-lived bird

• Main Authors: Goutte, Aurélie, Antoine, Elodie, Chastel, Olivier
• Other Authors: Centre d'études biologiques de Chizé (CEBC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2011
• Subjects: [SDE]Environmental Sciences; Nivea; Snow Petrels
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00585199

International audience In birds, the timing of breeding is a key life-history trait with crucial fitness consequences. We predicted that parents may value a brood less if it hatched later than expected, thereby decreasing their parental effort. In addition, breeding effort would be further modulated...