Fruiting Season Length Restricts Global Distribution of Female-Only Parental Care in Frugivorous Passerine Birds.

Food availability is known to influence parental care and mating systems in passerine birds. Altricial chicks make uni-parental care particularly demanding for passerines and parental investment is known to increase with decreasing food availability. We expect this to limit uni-parental passerines t...

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Main Authors: Sahas Barve, Frank A La Sorte
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4858211?pdf=render