Individually variable energy management strategies in relation to energetic costs of egg production

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• egg production 100%
• energy management 94%
• expenditure 73%
• energetics 65%
• cost 37%
• reproductive effort 37%
• energy 35%
• egg 23%
• food intake 21%
• rate 13%
• captive breeding 12%
• reproductive strategy 10%
• individual variation 10%
• energy budget 8%
• demand 5%
• need 4%

Agriculture & Biology

• energy expenditure 78%
• egg production 68%
• resting metabolic rate 47%
• energy 42%
• locomotion 34%
• Taeniopygia guttata 34%
• eggs 16%
• food intake 16%
• breeding 5%