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Life history and environmental influences on avian incubation and parental care in songbirds

Creator:

Austin-Bythell, Suzanne H.

Abstract:

Patterns of nest attendance behavior by breeding birds represent a parent-offspring trade-off in which adults balance self-maintenance with parental care decisions. Incubation, in particular, is of interest because adults must provide an environment suitable for embryonic development through nest-building and contact-incubation. We evaluated how adult incubation constancy and nest visitation...

Resource Type:

Dissertation
Growth and development of temperate and tropical passerines of the New World : a life history perspective

Creator:

Austin-Bythell, Suzanne H.

Abstract:

I studied developmental rates in a suite of temperate and tropical passerine bird species from the New World to test the hypothesis that tropical passerines exhibit slower patterns of growth and development than temperate birds. I also investigated how the expression of several developmental rates varied with life history traits...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis