Seasonal decline in clutch size in European starlings: A novel randomization test to distinguish between the timing and quality hypotheses

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1080-1087

  Christians, Julian K ^a,b   Evanson, Melissa ^a   Aiken, Jonathan J ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Egg mass, intraspecific variation; Laying date, Monte Carlo test; Repeatability

Indexed keywords

CLUTCH SIZE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PASSERINE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

AVES; GALLIFORMES; PASSERIFORMES; STURNIDAE; STURNUS; STURNUS VULGARIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035657122     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0021-8790.2001.00566.x     Document Type: Article

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