Dobbs, Robert C.; Styrsky, John D.; Thompson, Charles F. - In: Behavioral Ecology 17 (2006) 5, pp. 849-856
different reproductive events should shape the evolution of life-history traits. To investigate the effects of incubation effort … females incubated. We isolated effects of incubation by reversing the manipulation at hatching to allow all parents to … provision their natural brood sizes. Females that incubated enlarged clutches had longer incubation periods than control females …