Parental care strategies in Eurasian penduline tit are not related to breeding densities and mating opportunities

Behaviour

Volumn 147, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1551-1565

  Van Dijk, René E ^a,b   Brinkhuizen, Dušan M ^b   Székely, Tamás ^a   Komdeur, Jan ^b  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

breeding density; Eurasian penduline tit; mating opportunities; parental care; sexual conflict

Indexed keywords

REMIZ PENDULINUS;

EID: 77957602556     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/000579510X505454     Document Type: Article

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