Load lightening in southern lapwings: Group-Living mothers lay smaller eggs than pair-living mothers

Ethology

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 547-555

  Santos, Eduardo S A ^a   Macedo, Regina H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BODY MASS; CLUTCH SIZE; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; EGG SIZE; FITNESS; GROUP SIZE; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MOBBING; PRECOCIALITY; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PROTEIN; REPRODUCTIVE COST; WADER;

VANELLUS; VANELLUS CHILENSIS;

EID: 79955715064     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.01905.x     Document Type: Article

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