Individual and resource-dependent variation in ability to lay supranormal clutches in response to egg removal

Auk

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 481-489

  Williams, Tony D ^a   Miller, Melinda ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUTCH SIZE; EGG PRODUCTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PASSERINE;

AVES; FRINGILLIDAE; PASSERIFORMES; TAENIOPYGIA; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 0038480253     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4090200     Document Type: Article

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