Do experiments with captive non-domesticated animals make sense without population field studies? A case study with blue tits' breeding time

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1426, 1999, Pages 1311-1315

  Lambrechts, Marcel M ^a   Perret, Philippe ^a   Maistre, Marie ^a   Blondel, Jacques ^a  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

Author keywords

Avian reproduction; Blue tit; Captive animals; Parus caeruleus; Population studies; Seasonal breeding

Indexed keywords

CAPTIVE BREEDING; PASSERINE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ACCURACY; ALTITUDE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIRD; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; METHODOLOGY; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PARUS CAERULEUS; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0033532959     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0780     Document Type: Article

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