Paternal care and male mate-attraction effort in the European starling is adjusted to clutch size

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1497, 2002, Pages 1253-1261

  Komdeur, Jan ^a   Wiersma, Popko ^a   Magrath, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brood size; Clutch size; Food provisioning; Incubation; Parental care; Reproductive trade off

Indexed keywords

CLUTCH SIZE; MATE ATTRACTION; PARENTAL CARE; PASSERINE;

ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; BREEDING METHOD; CLUTCH SIZE; FEMALE; HATCHING; INCUBATION TIME; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MONOGAMY; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; POLYGYNY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SINGING; STURNUS VULGARIS; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SONGBIRD;

ANIMAL; BREEDING; FEMALE; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PAIR BOND; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION; SEX BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SONGBIRDS; ANIMALS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES; STURNIDAE; STURNUS; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 0037157459     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.1987     Document Type: Article

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