TY  - GEN 
AU  - Barón, María Dolores
AU  - Martín-Vivaldi Martínez, Manuel Lorenzo
PY  - 2024
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/10481/101739
AB  - The adaptive value of routinely laying more eggs than can be successfully fledged has intrigued evolutionary biologists for decades. Extra eggs could, for instance, be adaptive as insurance against hatching failures. Moreover, because recent...
LA  - eng
PB  - UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
KW  - Bird ecology
KW  - Cannibalism
KW  - Hatching asynchrony
KW  - Larder hypothesis
KW  - Brood reduction
KW  - Upupa epops
TI  - Extra nestlings that are condemned to die increase reproductive success in hoopoes.
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1086/728883
ER  -