Multiple breeding in the Great Tit. A trade-off between successive reproductive attempts?

Functional Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 714-722

  Verhulst, S ^a,b   Tinbergen, M ^b   Daan, S ^b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Life history; Multiple breeding; Parental care; Parus major; Trade off

Indexed keywords

GREAT TIT; MULTIPLE BREEDING; PARENTAL CARE; REPRODUCTIVE INVESTMENT; TEADE-OFF;

ANIMALIA; PARUS; PARUS MAJOR; PASSERIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031415165     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.1997.00145.x     Document Type: Article

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