Post-fledging care, multiple breeding and the costs of reproduction in the great tit

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 957-966

  Verhulst, Simon ^a   Hut, Roelof A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREAT TIT; MULTIPLE BREEDING;

PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 0030131634     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0099     Document Type: Article

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