AUTHOR=Botterill-James Thomas , Halliwell Ben , Cooper-Scott Emily , Uller Tobias , Wapstra Erik , While Geoffrey M. TITLE=Habitat Structure Influences Parent-Offspring Association in a Social Lizard JOURNAL=Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution VOLUME=4 YEAR=2016 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/ecology-and-evolution/articles/10.3389/fevo.2016.00096 DOI=10.3389/fevo.2016.00096 ISSN=2296-701X ABSTRACT=
Parental care emerges as a result of an increase in the extent of interaction between parents and their offspring. These interactions can provide the foundation for the evolution of a range of complex parental behaviors. Therefore, fundamental to understanding the evolution of parental care is an understanding of the factors that promote this initial increase in parent-offspring association. Here, we used large outdoor enclosures to test how the spatial structure of high-quality habitat affects the occurrence of parent-offspring associations in a social lizard (