Hatching asynchrony reduces the duration, not the magnitude, of peak load in breeding green-rumped parrotlets (Forpus passerinus)

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 444-450

  Siegel, Rodney B ^a,c   Weathers, Wesley W ^a   Beissinger, Steven R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Institute for Bird Populations   (United States)

Author keywords

Asynchronous hatching; Doubly labeled water; Forpus passerinus; Green rumped parrotlets; Peak load

Indexed keywords

BIRD; HATCHING; SYNCHRONY;

FORPUS PASSERINUS;

EID: 0033032674     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002650050583     Document Type: Article

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