Warm Is Better: Incubation Temperature Influences Apparent Survival and Recruitment of Wood Ducks (Aix sponsa)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Hepp, Gary R ^a   Kennamer, Robert A ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUCK; DUCKLING; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; FLEDGLING; HATCHING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; INCUBATION TIME; LIFE HISTORY; LOW TEMPERATURE; NESTING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SURVIVAL RATE; WOOD DUCK;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COLD TEMPERATURE; DUCKS; EGGS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; MALE; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84867507470     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047777     Document Type: Article

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