• DOI:10.1086/681986
Corpus ID: 9373880

Adult Mortality Probability and Nest Predation Rates Explain Parental Effort in Warming Eggs with Consequences for Embryonic Development Time

@article{Martin2015AdultMP,
  title={Adult Mortality Probability and Nest Predation Rates Explain Parental Effort in Warming Eggs with Consequences for Embryonic Development Time},
  author={T. Martin and J. C. Oteyza and A. Boyce and P. Lloyd and R. Ton},
  journal={The American Naturalist},
  year={2015},
  volume={186},
  pages={223 - 236}
}

T. Martin, J. C. Oteyza, +2 authors R. Ton

Published 2015

Biology, Medicine

The American Naturalist

Parental behavior and effort vary extensively among species. Life-history theory suggests that age-specific mortality could cause this interspecific variation, but past tests have focused on fecundity as the measure of parental effort. Fecundity can cause costs of reproduction that confuse whether mortality is the cause or the consequence of parental effort. We focus on a trait, parental allocation of time and effort in warming embryos, that varies widely among species of diverse taxa and is… CONTINUE READING

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