Aggressive ural owl mothers recruit more offspring

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 789-796

  Kontiainen, Pekka ^a   Pietiäinen, Hannu ^a   Huttunen, Kalle ^a   Karell, Patrik ^a   Kolunen, Heikki ^b   Brommer, Jon E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b NONE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Natural selection; Nest defense; Personality; Strix uralensis; Survival; Temperament; Vole cycle

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BROOD SIZE; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; LAYING DATE; NEST GUARDING; PREY AVAILABILITY; RAPTOR; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RODENT; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; MURIDAE; STRIGIFORMES; STRIX URALENSIS;

EID: 67651119956     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arp062     Document Type: Article

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