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Deceptive nest defence in ground-nesting birds and the risk of intermediate strategies

Nest predation is an important determinant of reproductive success and ground-nesting birds exhibit a variety of nest defence strategies to mitigate the risk. Many small-bodied, ground nesting birds rely on deceptive behaviours such as injury-feigning to reduce nest predation: we call this behaviour...

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Autores principales: Smith, Paul A., Edwards, Darryl B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6175515/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30296281
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205236