Hatching asynchrony as a bet-hedging strategy - An offspring diversity hypothesis

Oikos

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 616-620

  Laaksonen, Toni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BET-HEDGING; BIRD; HATCHING; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SYNCHRONY;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 1542351634     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2004.12858.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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