Food availability and the male's role in parental care in double-brooded Treecreepers Certhia familiaris

Ibis

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 638-643

  Kuitunen, Markku ^a,b   Jäntti, Ari ^a   Suhonen, Jukka ^a   Aho, Teija ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERTHIA FAMILIARIS;

DOUBLE BROODING; NESTLING FEEDING; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PATERNAL CARE; TREECREEPER;

EID: 0030303875     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.1996.tb04765.x     Document Type: Article

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