Ardia, Daniel R.; Clotfelter, Ethan D. - In: Behavioral Ecology 18 (2007) 1, pp. 259-266
greater reduction in incubation and a greater loss of body condition than higher quality clipped females compared with … controls. Most importantly, responses during incubation influenced nestling traits; lower quality clipped females, particularly … those losing the most body mass, raised nestlings in the poorest condition. There was no difference in incubation patterns …