Sex-related parental care strategies in the lesser spotted woodpecker Picoides minor: Of flexible mothers and dependable fathers

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 28-33

  Rossmanith, Eva ^a   Blaum, Niels ^a   Höntsch, Kerstin ^b   Jeltsch, Florian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b Naturstiftung David   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPENSATION; FLEDGING; INCUBATION; MORTALITY; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; NEST SITE; PARENTAL CARE; POLYANDRY; SANITATION; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; HESSE; RHENISH SCHIEFERGEBIRGE; TAUNUS;

PICIDAE; PICOIDES MINOR;

EID: 58249103975     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: 1600048X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2008.04353.x     Document Type: Article

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