Delayed dispersal: youth costs carry lifetime gains.
An analysis of reproductive success in the green woodhoopoe Phoeniculus purpures challenges the view that delayed dispersal is costly. Females delaying dispersal for longer had more reproductive events in life and higher lifetime production of offspring.
Ekman
Jan
J
Department of Ecology & Evolution/Population Biology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Sweden. Jan.Ekman@ebc.uu.se <Jan.Ekman@ebc.uu.se>
D025041:Animal Migration; D000818:Animals; D001717:Birds / Q000502:physiology*; D001947:Breeding; D005260:Female; D012098:Reproduction / Q000502:physiology*; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal; D013997:Time Factors