Houston, Alasdair I.; Stephens, Philip A.; Boyd, Ian L.; … - In: Behavioral Ecology 18 (2007) 1, pp. 241-250
Energy storage is an important component of life-history variation. A distinction is recognized between species that provision offspring using energy gained concurrently (income breeders) and those that provision offspring using energy stores accumulated at an earlier time (capital breeders)....