The Consequences of Brood Size for Breeding Blue Tits II. Nestling Weight, Offspring Survival and Optimal Brood Size
- 1 June 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Animal Ecology
- Vol. 53 (2), 497-517
- https://doi.org/10.2307/4530
Abstract
(1) Two hypotheses first proposed by Lack (1947, 1948, 1954) to account for the evolution of brood size were examined: (i) the average brood size of a populatio...This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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