A comparison of nutrient allocation in eggs of Barn Owls Tyto alba and Eurasian Sparrowhawks Accipiter nisus

Ardea

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 269-274

  Van Den Burg, A B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accipiter nisus; Egg volume; Lipids; Nutrient allocation; Proteins; Tyto alba

Indexed keywords

EGG; LIPID; NUTRIENT; PROTEIN; RAPTOR; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

ACCIPITER; ACCIPITER NISUS; AVES; GALLIFORMES; RAPTORES; STRIGIFORMES; TYTO ALBA; TYTONIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037535281     PISSN: 03732266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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