How many baskets? Clutch sizes that maximize annual fecundity of multiple-brooded birds

Auk

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 973-982

  Farnsworth, G L ^a   Simons, T R ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUTCH SIZE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FECUNDITY; MULTIPLE BROODING; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT;

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EID: 0035210776     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089846     Document Type: Article

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