Adjusting the timing of hatching to changing environmental conditions has fitness costs in blue tits

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2091-2103

  Kluen, Edward ^a   de Heij, Maaike E ^a   Brommer, Jon E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Asymmetric climate change; Cyanistes caeruleus; Hatching delay; Incubation; Maternal effects; Reproductive costs

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; BIOENERGETICS; BODY CONDITION; BODY MASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLUTCH SIZE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FITNESS; FLEDGING; HATCHING; MATERNAL EFFECT; NESTLING; PASSERINE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REPRODUCTIVE COST; SURVIVAL; TRADE-OFF;

FINLAND;

AVES; CYANISTES CAERULEUS;

EID: 80053943156     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-011-1218-y     Document Type: Article

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