Winter food provisioning reduces future breeding performance in a wild bird

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Plummer, K E ^a   Bearhop, S ^a   Leech, D I ^b   Chamberlain, D E ^c   Blount, J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BIRD; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEASON;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BIRDS; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS;

EID: 84879670177     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02002     Document Type: Article

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