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Does breeding population trajectory and age of nesting females influence disparate nestling sex ratios in two populations of Cooper's hawks?

Offspring sex ratios at the termination of parental care should theoretically be skewed toward the less expensive sex, which in most avian species would be females, the smaller gender. Among birds, however, raptors offer an unusual dynamic because they exhibit reversed size dimorphism with females b...

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Autores principales: Rosenfield, Robert N., Stout, William E., Giovanni, Matthew D., Levine, Noah H., Cava, Jenna A., Hardin, Madeline G., Haynes, Taylor G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4588665/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26445658
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1674