Variable effects of laying date on clutch size in the Canary Island Blue Tits (Cyanistes teneriffae)

Ibis

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 564-567

  Garcia Del Rey, Eduardo ^a,c   Cresswell, Will ^b   Perrins, Christopher M ^a   Gosler, Andrew G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CLUTCH SIZE; LAYING DATE; PASSERINE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANARY ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; MACARONESIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

CYANISTES;

EID: 33745873741     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2006.00569.x     Document Type: Article

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