Informed renesting decisions: The effect of nest predation risk

Oecologia

Volumn 174, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1159-1167

  Pakanen, Veli Matti ^a   Rönkä, Nelli ^a   Thomson, Robert L ^b   Koivula, Kari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cost of reproduction; Information use; Migratory shorebird; Nest survival; Replacement clutch

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; CLUTCH SIZE; CONCEALMENT BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DISPERSAL; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NEST PREDATION; PREDATION RISK; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEASONALITY; SURVIVAL; WADER;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CALIDRIS ALPINA; CALIDRIS ALPINA SCHINZII;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; FINLAND; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; REPRODUCTION; SEASON;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CUES; FINLAND; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS;

EID: 84896318156     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-013-2847-9     Document Type: Article

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