Data from: Variation in growth drives the duration of parental care: a test of Ydenberg's model

• Main Authors: Elliott, Kyle H., Linnebjerg, Jannie F., Burke, Chantelle, Gaston, Anthony J., Mosbech, Anders, Frederiksen, Morten, Merkel, Flemming
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) 2020
• Subjects: Life sciences; medicine and health care; Behavior: antipredator; Life history; Life history: evolution; Trade offs; bird; Uria lomvia; Life history: ecology; thick-billed murre; Life history: theory; Common murre; Brunnich's guillemot; Uria aalge; Nunavut; Newfoundland; Greenland; demo; socio; Coats Island; Common Murre; uria
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.kc65r

The duration of parental care in animals varies widely, from none to lifelong. Such variation is typically thought to represent a trade-off between growth and safety. Seabirds show wide variation in the age at which offspring leave the nest, making them ideal to test the idea that a trade-off betwee...