Plasticity in incubation behaviour under experimentally prolonged vulnerability to nest predation

Behaviour

Volumn 150, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 1767-1786

  Korpimäki, Erkki ^a   Thomson, Robert L ^a   Morosinotto, Chiara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

anti predator behaviour; cost of incubation; hatching success; maternal condition; nest predation; parental care; phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891880490     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568539X-00003119     Document Type: Article

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