Delayed timing as a strategy to avoid nest-site competition: Testing a model using data from starlings and flickers

Oikos

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 291-298

  Wiebe, Karen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUTCH SIZE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LAYING DATE; NATURAL SELECTION; NEST SITE; PASSERINE;

CANADA;

AVES; COLAPTES; COLAPTES AURATUS; PASSERIFORMES; STURNIDAE; STURNUS; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 0037648796     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2003.12046.x     Document Type: Article

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