Female offspring desertion and male-only care increase with natural and experimental increase in food abundance

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1662, 2009, Pages 1713-1721

  Eldegard, Katrine ^a   Sonerud, Geir A ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Body reserves; Food abundance; Food supplementation; Offspring desertion; Parental care; Post fledging

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; FLEDGING; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; MALE BEHAVIOR; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PATERNAL CARE; POPULATION DENSITY; RAPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEMALE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; MALE; MATING; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OWL; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; POLYANDRY; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY;

AEGOLIUS FUNEREUS; STRIGIFORMES;

ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 66349095188     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1775     Document Type: Article

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