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Costs of incubation in Common Terns Sterna hirundo: replication and extension of a clutch-enlargement experiment
Article first published online: 24 NOV 2010
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2010.01076.x
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HATCH, J. J. and NISBET, I. C. T. (2011), Costs of incubation in Common Terns Sterna hirundo: replication and extension of a clutch-enlargement experiment. Ibis, 153: 185–189. doi: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2010.01076.x
Publication History
- Issue published online: 6 DEC 2010
- Article first published online: 24 NOV 2010
- Received 2 November 2009; revision accepted 13 October 2010. Associate Editor: Richard Phillips.
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Keywords:
- clutch size;
- growth;
- productivity
Manipulation of clutch size during incubation has been used in a number of studies to investigate life-history costs of incubation. We increased or decreased clutches of Common Terns Sterna hirundo during incubation and measured subsequent chick growth and productivity. Our results provide little support for the hypothesis that costs of incubation in Common Terns are substantially affected by the number of eggs incubated.