Discriminating uniparental and biparental breeding strategies by monitoring nest temperature

• Published in: Ibis
• Main Authors: Moreau, Jerome, Perroud, Lucie, Bollache, Loïc, Yannic, Glenn, Teixeira, Maria, Reneerkens, Jeroen, Schmidt, Niels Martin, Gilg, Olivier
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: incubation; incubation behaviour; shorebirds; Sanderling; thermologger; incubation system; Recess; Calidris alba
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11370/8e79b478-e940-48e1-b5c7-0b5140b4955c; https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/8e79b478-e940-48e1-b5c7-0b5140b4955c; https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12507; https://pure.rug.nl/ws/files/51454317/Moreau_et_al_2018_Ibis.pdf

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...