Environmental factors and sexual differences in mass and condition of nestling pied flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca

Ecoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-24

  Potti, Jaime ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Growth strategies; Offspring quality; Parasitism; Phenotypic correlations; Selection; Size dimorphism

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION; BODY MASS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; NESTLING; PARASITISM; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE;

ACARI; FICEDULA HYPOLEUCA; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0032752915     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.1999.11952197     Document Type: Article

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