Natural selection on avian breeding time: Causality, fecundity-dependent, and fecundity-independent selection

Evolution

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1276-1283

  Svensson, Erik ^a  

^a Ecology Building   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Blue tit; Breeding time; Brood size; Directional selection; Heritability; Parus caeruleus; Phenotypic plasticity; Year specific selective regimes

Indexed keywords

BLUE TIT; BREEDING TIME; FECUNDITY; NATURAL SELECTION; POSTFLEDGLING SURVIVAL; SELECTION;

AVES; GALLIFORMES; PARUS CAERULEUS;

EID: 0030847376     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1997.tb03974.x     Document Type: Article

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