Speckled eggs: Water-loss and incubation behaviour in the great tit Parus major

Oecologia

Volumn 149, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 561-570

  Higham, James P ^a,b   Gosler, Andrew G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eggshell maculation; Eggshell permeability; Incubation behaviour; Pigmentation

Indexed keywords

PROTOPORPHYRIN; WATER;

CRYPSIS; EGG PRODUCTION; EGGSHELL; INCUBATION; PASSERINE; PIGMENT; SIGNALING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; NESTING; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; OVUM; PIGMENTATION; PROTOPORPHYRINS; SONGBIRDS; WATER;

AVES; PARUS MAJOR; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 33748945564     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0484-2     Document Type: Article

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