Parental effort and blood parasitism in Tengmalm's owl: Effects of natural and experimental variation in food abundance

Oikos

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 79-86

  Ilmonen, Petteri ^a   Hakkarainen, Harri ^a   Koivunen, Vesa ^a   Korpimäki, Erkki ^a   Mullie, Adele ^b   Shutler, Dave ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD AVAILABILITY; HEMOPARASITE; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; RAPTOR;

AEGOLIUS FUNEREUS; MURIDAE; RAPTORES; STRIGIFORMES; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA AVIUM; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033028895     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546571     Document Type: Article

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