Reproductive success, food supply, and the evolution of clutch-size in the Glaucous-winged gull
Lack (1947) proposed that, in nidicolous birds, clutch-size has evolved to correspond, on average, to the most productive brood size. The limit is normally set by the maximum number of young the adults can adequately feed to fledging. Recent studies using gulls to test Lack's hypothesis have sh...
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University of British Columbia
2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/32307 |