Putting eggs in one basket: Ecological and evolutionary hypotheses for variation in oviposition-site choice

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 41, Issue , 2010, Pages 39-57

  Refsnider, Jeanine M ^a   Janzen, Fredric J ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

juvenile habitat; mate choice; maternal survival; natal philopatry; nest site choice; offspring survival; phenotype

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; EGG; EMBRYO; HABITAT TYPE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INSECT; JUVENILE; MATERNAL EFFECT; OVIPOSITION; PHENOTYPE; PHILOPATRY; SELECTION; SURVIVAL; TAXONOMY; VERTEBRATE;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; AVES; HEXAPODA; REPTILIA;

EID: 77953853885     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-102209-144712     Document Type: Article

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