Factors influencing the clutch size, number of broods and annual fecundity of North American and European land birds

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 823-839

  Böhning Gaese, Katrin ^a   Halbe, Bettina ^a   Lemoine, Nicole ^a   Oberrath, Reik ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body size; Broods; Clutch size; Fecundity; Land birds; Latitude; Migratory behaviour; Nestling development

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000426899     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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