Counter-strategies to infanticide in mammals: Costs and consequences

Oikos

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 507-517

  Agrell, Jep ^a   Wolff, Jerry O ^b   Ylönen, Hannu ^c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; INFANTICIDE; MAMMAL; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

EID: 0032457335     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546678     Document Type: Conference Paper

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