Time-dependent reproductive decisions in the blue tit

Oikos

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 351-361

  Nilsson, Jan Åke ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; MULTIPLE BROODING; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

AVES; PARUS CAERULEUS; PASSERIFORMES; PHACELIA CONGESTA;

EID: 0034005378     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2000.880214.x     Document Type: Article

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