Making the best of a bad job? Chick mortality and flexible female brood care in Snowy Plovers
K. Kupan, T. Szekely, M. Cruz-Lopez, K. Seymour, C. Kuepper
This study investigates Snowy Plover female brood care decisions, finding that desertion is often a response to poor chick condition rather than a strategy for higher reproductive success.
bioRxiv · Dec 19, 2019Ecology