The Consequences of Brood Size for Breeding Blue Tits I. Adult Survival, Weight Change and the Cost of Reproduction

1 June 1984

journal article
research article
Published by JSTOR in Journal of Animal Ecology

Vol. 53 (2) , 479-496
https://doi.org/10.2307/4529

Abstract

(1) It has been assumed that the cost of reproduction increases with an increase in the size of the brood reared by a breeding individual. To identify and quant...

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