Parental provisioning and offspring fitness: size matters

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 291-298

  Schwagmeyer, P L ^a   Mock, Douglas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

brood size; fledging weights; food ESS; house sparrow; offspring survival; parental care; parental feeding; parental provisioning; Passer domesticus; recruitment

Indexed keywords

BROOD SIZE; FITNESS; FLEDGING; NESTLING; PARENTAL CARE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SURVIVAL;

AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS;

EID: 37349093376     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.05.023     Document Type: Article

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