Seasonal Variation in Quality and Survival of Nestling Tree Swallows (Tachycineta bicolor): Tests of Alternate Hypotheses

Understanding the patterns and processes that create differences among individuals in components of fitness, like the probability of survival or reproductive rates, is essential to our knowledge of population dynamics and for informing conservation efforts. For organisms in seasonal environments, ea...

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Other Authors: Clark, Robert G.
Language:English
Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2014-09-1696