Impaired flight ability prior to egg-laying: A cost of being a capital breeder

Functional Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 98-101

  Kullberg, C ^a   Jakobsson, S ^a   Kaby, U ^a   Lind, J ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bird; Capital breeding; Predation risk; Taeniopygia guttata

Indexed keywords

BREEDING; FLIGHT; PASSERINE; PREDATION RISK; REPRODUCTION;

AVES; FRINGILLIDAE; RAPTORES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 16844383771     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0269-8463.2005.00932.x     Document Type: Article

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