Sex-specific recruitment and brood sex ratios of Eurasian kestrels in a seasonally and annually fluctuating northern environment

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 215-230

  Laaksonen, Toni ^a   Lyytinen, Sami ^a   Korpimäki, Erkki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

age at first breeding; environmental variation; maturation time hypothesis; reproductive value; sex allocation

Indexed keywords

FOOD AVAILABILITY; HATCHING DATE; RAPTOR; RECRUITMENT; SEX RATIO;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

FALCO; FALCO TINNUNCULUS; RAPTORES;

EID: 3843093761     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:EVEC.0000035081.91292.17     Document Type: Article

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