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Is parental competitive ability in winter negatively affected by previous springs’ family size?

Reproductive behavior cannot be understood without taking the local level of competition into account. Experimental work in great tits (Parus major) showed that (1) a survival cost of reproduction was paid in environments with high levels of competition during the winter period and (2) experimentall...

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Autores principales: Fokkema, Rienk W., Ubels, Richard, Tinbergen, Joost M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5330910/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28261453
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2752