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SUBMITTER: Recapet C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4892243 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Récapet Charlotte C Récapet Charlotte C Daniel Grégory G Taroni Joëlle J Bize Pierre P Doligez Blandine B
Biology letters 20160501 5
Dispersing and non-dispersing individuals often differ in phenotypic traits (e.g. physiology, behaviour), but to what extent these differences are fixed or driven by external conditions remains elusive. We experimentally tested whether differences in nest-defence behaviour between dispersing and non-dispersing individuals changed with local habitat quality in collared flycatchers, by providing additional food during the nestling rearing period. In control (non-food-supplemented) nests, disperser ...[more]