Common goldeneyes adjust maternal effort in relation to prior brood success and not current brood size

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 101-106

  Pöysä, Hannu ^a   Virtanen, Juha ^b   Milonoff, Markku ^a  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Brood size; Brood success; Bucephala clangula; Maternal care; Maternal effort

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031004018     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002650050321     Document Type: Article

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