Why do female common shrews produce so many offspring?

Oikos

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 560-566

  Stockley, Paula ^a   Macdonald, David W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INBREEDING; LITTER SIZE; MAMMAL; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

SOREX ARANEUS;

EID: 0032456499     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546682     Document Type: Conference Paper

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