Multiple incentives for parental optimism and brood reduction in blackbirds

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 2529-2541

  Forbes, Scott ^a   Grosshans, Richard ^a,b   Glassey, Barb ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brood reduction; Core offspring; Hatching asynchrony; Marginal offspring; Parental optimism; Phenotypic handicap; Resource tracking; Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus; Yellow headed Blackbird

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BROOD SIZE; HATCHING; PARENTAL CARE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY;

AVES; ICTERIDAE; TURDUS MERULA; XANTHOCEPHALUS; XANTHOCEPHALUS XANTHOCEPHALUS;

EID: 0038477009     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[2529:MIFPOA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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