Temporal trade-offs between nestling provisioning and defence against nest predators in blue tits

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1459-1469

  Mutzel, Ariane ^a   Blom, Mozes P K ^a   Spagopoulou, Foteini ^a   Wright, Jonathan ^b   Dingemanse, Niels J ^a,c   Kempenaers, Bart ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blue tit; Cyanistes caeruleus; Neophobia; Nest defence; Parental care; Personality; Predation risk; Provisioning; Trade off

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; NEST GUARDING; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PARENTAL CARE; PASSERINE; PREDATION RISK; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TRADE-OFF;

AVES; CYANISTES CAERULEUS;

EID: 84879270397     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.03.043     Document Type: Article

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