Experimentally increased egg production constrains future reproduction of female house wrens

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 495-500

  Bowers, E Keith ^a   Sakaluk, Scott K ^a   Thompson, Charles F ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost of reproduction; Egg production; Egg removal experiment; House wren; Maternal effect; Troglodytes aedon

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SEASON; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; EGG PRODUCTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FITNESS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MATERNAL EFFECT; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL; SONGBIRD;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES; TROGLODYTES; TROGLODYTES AEDON;

EID: 84856106605     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.11.026     Document Type: Article

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