Hatching asynchrony and early nestling mortality: the feeding constraint hypothesis

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 691-700

  Slagsvold, Tore ^a   Wiebe, Karen L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

brood reduction; feeding constraint; Ficedula hypoleuca; hatching asynchrony; nestling mortality; pied flycatcher; prey size

Indexed keywords

FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; HATCHING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MORTALITY; NESTLING; PASSERINE; PREY SIZE; SIBLING; STARVATION;

AVES; FICEDULA HYPOLEUCA;

EID: 33947679717     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.05.021     Document Type: Article

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