Empty nests do not affect female mate choice or maternal investment in House Wrens

Condor

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 382-387

  Dubois, Natalie S ^a   Getty, Thomas ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Egg removal; Empty nests; House Wren; Mate choice; Nest destruction; Parental investment; Troglodytes aedon

Indexed keywords

AVES; TROGLODYTES AEDON; TROGLODYTES TROGLODYTES; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 0038371247     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/0010-5422(2003)105[0382:ENDNAF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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