Mates of Competitive Females: The Relationships between Female Aggression, Mate Quality, and Parental Care
Figure 2
Scatter plots illustrating the relationships between male and female parental behaviors. In (a), the negative relationship between female and male provisioning rates, (a). Points are leverage plot pairs (see Section 2.5) showing the relationship between variables controlling for other predictors in the model, akin to a partial correlation. (b) Illustrates the lack of relationship between female brooding behavior and male provisioning rate. Grey diamonds denote first year breeding males; open squares denote males past their first breeding year.
