Possible fitness consequences of experimentally advanced laying dates in Great Tits: Differences between populations in different habitats

Functional Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 180-185

  Gienapp, P ^a   Visser, M E ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate change; Food supplementation; Parus major; Resource constraints; Selection on breeding time

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; HABITAT TYPE; LAYING DATE; PASSERINE;

AVES; PARUS; PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 33645221160     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2006.01079.x     Document Type: Article

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