Mismatched reproduction is energetically costly for chick feeding female great tits

Functional Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1302-1308

  Te Marvelde, Luc ^a   Webber, Simone L ^b   Meijer, Harro A J ^c   Visser, Marcel E ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chick rearing; Cost of reproduction; Daily energy expenditure; Match mismatch; Timing of breeding

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SEASON; BROOD REARING; CLIMATE CHANGE; EGG; ENERGY BUDGET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; PHENOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE; SONGBIRD;

AVES; PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 80855147449     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2011.01889.x     Document Type: Article

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