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Individual variation in parental workload and breeding productivity in female European starlings: is the effort worth it?

We analyzed individual variation in work load (nest visit rate) during chick-rearing, and the consequences of this variation in terms of breeding productivity, in a highly synchronous breeder, the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) focusing on female birds. There was marked (10- to 16-fold) variat...

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Autores principales: Fowler, Melinda A, Williams, Tony D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4567863/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26380688
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1625