Agricultural intensification exacerbates female-biased primary brood sex-ratio in tree swallows

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1395-1405

  Baeta, Renaud ^a   Bélisle, Marc ^a   Garant, Dany ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Environmental change; Landscape structure; Phenology; Primary sex ratio; Tachycineta bicolor

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FEMALE; HATCHING DATE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; NEST SITE; PASSERINE; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION DECLINE; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO;

CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

AVES; TACHYCINETA; TACHYCINETA BICOLOR;

EID: 84868600767     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-012-9785-5     Document Type: Article

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