Egg mass in an asynchronously hatching parrot: Does variation offset constraints imposed by laying order?

Oecologia

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 318-326

  Budden, Amber E ^a   Beissinger, Steven R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asynchrony; Brood reduction; Heritability; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

LIFE HISTORY; TRADE-OFF;

AGE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; MORPHOMETRICS; OOCYTE; PARROT; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REPRODUCTION; VENEZUELA;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; FEMALE; OVIPOSITION; OVUM; PARROTS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; REPRODUCTION; VENEZUELA;

AVES; FORPUS PASSERINUS; PSITTACIDAE;

EID: 23844456284     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-005-0054-z     Document Type: Article

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