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Manipulation of the Brood Size of Pied Flycatchers

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Abstract

Most studies on passerines have shown a positive correlation between clutch size and the production of fledglings. They have also shown that clutches larger than the modal one fledge more young than those of modal size (Klomp 1970, Murphy and Haukioja 1986, Alatalo and Lundberg 1989). This observation apparently contradicts Lack’s (1947, 1954) original hypothesis of clutch size determination in nidicolous birds, according to which clutch size is determined by the largest number of young that the parents can adequately nourish.

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  1. Department of Ecology, Animal Ecology, Lund University, Ecology Building, S-223, 62 Lund, Sweden

    Hans Källander & Henrik G. Smith

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  1. Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, B.P. 5051, 34033, Montpellier Cédex, France

    Jacques Blondel

  2. Department of Zoology, Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PS, Great Britain

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  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, B.P. 5051, 34033, Montpellier Cédex, France

    Jean-Dominique Lebreton

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Källander, H., Smith, H.G. (1990). Manipulation of the Brood Size of Pied Flycatchers. In: Blondel, J., Gosler, A., Lebreton, JD., McCleery, R. (eds) Population Biology of Passerine Birds. NATO ASI Series, vol 24. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75110-3_22

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