The resting metabolic cost of egg laying and nestling feeding in great tits

Oecologia

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 187-192

  Nilsson, Jan Åke ^a   Råberg, Lars ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biosynthetic cost; Egg formation; Great tit; Ovary oviduct recrudescence; Timing of reproduction

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; FOOD PROVISIONING; METABOLISM; OVIPOSITION;

GALLUS GALLUS; PARUS MAJOR; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034886571     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420100653     Document Type: Article

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