Do kestrels adjust their parental effort to current or future benefit in a temporally varying environment?

Ecoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 165-172

  Tolonen, Pasi ^a   Korpimäki, Erkki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Benefit of parental care; Brood size manipulation; Eurasian kestrel; Reproductive effort; Vole cycle

Indexed keywords

FALCO TINNUNCULUS; MURIDAE;

BROOD REARING; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATION;

FINLAND;

EID: 0030449867     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.1996.11682327     Document Type: Article

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