Brood reduction and parental infanticide - Are the White Stork Ciconia ciconia and the Black Stork C. nigra exceptional?;Redukcja lȩgu i zabijanie potomstwa - czy bocian biały i bocian czarny sa̧ wyja̧tkowymi przykładami tego zjawiska?

Acta Ornithologica

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 113-119

  Zieliński, Piotr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

Black Stork; Brood reduction; Ciconia ciconia; Ciconia nigra; Mortality; Parental infanticide; Siblicide; Starvation; White Stork

Indexed keywords

BROOD SIZE; INFANTICIDE; PARENTAL CARE;

AVES; CICONIA; CICONIA CICONIA; CICONIA CICONIA CICONIA; CICONIA NIGRA; CICONIIFORMES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 17544391772     PISSN: 00016454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3161/068.037.0207     Document Type: Article

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