The Parasitism Insurance Hypothesis: Why Starlings Leave Space for Parasitic Eggs
- 1 November 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Ornithological Applications
- Vol. 91 (4) , 753-765
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1368058
Abstract
We propose that European Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) leave space for intraspecific parasitic eggs in order to prevent parasitism from producing an overcrowded ...This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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