Lack's brood reduction hypothesis and avian hatching asynchrony: What's next?

Oikos

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 613-620

  Amundsen, Trond ^a   Slagsvold, Tore ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BET-HEDGING; BROOD REDUCTION; HATCHING ASYNCHRONY; LACK'S HYPOTHESIS; OFFSPRING QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 0030467960     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546359     Document Type: Review

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