Sex roles, parental experience and reproductive success of eastern kingbirds, Tyrannus tyrannus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 105-115

  Woodard, Jason D ^b   Murphy, Michael T ^a  

^a HARTWICK COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARENTAL CARE; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE;

TYRANNUS TYRANNUS;

EID: 0032968197     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0998     Document Type: Article

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