Natural selection on individual clutch size-laying date trends in the Ural owl

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 229-237

  Brommer, Jon E ^a   Pietiäinen, Hannu ^a   Kolunen, Heikki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b NONE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Clutch size laying date trend; Life history; Lifetime reproductive success; Phenotypic plasticity; Strix uralensis; Ural owl

Indexed keywords

AVES; STRIGIFORMES; STRIX; STRIX URALENSIS;

EID: 2542417570     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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