Time and Energy Constraints During Incubation in Free-Living Swallows (Hirundo rustica): An Experimental Study Using Precision Electronic Balances
- 1 February 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Animal Ecology
- Vol. 56 (1) , 229-245
- https://doi.org/10.2307/4812
Abstract
(1) Body mass changes of free-living, incubating female swallows were obtained from nests on precision electronic balances. Short-term and long-term mass change...This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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