Haematological health state indices of reproducing Great Tits: A response to brood size manipulation

Functional Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 750-756

  Horak P ^a,b   Ots, I ^c   Murumagi A ^c  

^a Estonian Inst of Zoology and Botany   (Estonia)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Body mass; Haematocrit; Leucocytes; Parus major; Reproductive effort

Indexed keywords

BROOD SIZE; HEALTH IMPACT; IMMUNE RESPONSE; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT;

EID: 0031674263     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.1998.00244.x     Document Type: Article

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