Tawny Owls Strix aluco with reliable food supply produce male-biased broods

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Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 98-105

  Desfor, Kasi B ^a   Boomsma, Jacobus J ^a   Sunde, Peter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NERI Department of Wildlife Ecology and Biodiversity   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD SUPPLY; MALE; NESTLING; RAPTOR; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO;

CENTRAL EUROPE; DENMARK; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUNGARY; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORTHUMBERLAND; SCANDINAVIA; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

RODENTIA; STRIGIFORMES; STRIX ALUCO;

EID: 33846189812     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2006.00617.x     Document Type: Article

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