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Development syndromes in New World temperate and tropical songbirds

Creator:

Austin, Suzanne H., Robinson, W. Douglas, Robinson, Tara Rodden, and Ricklefs, Robert E.

Abstract:

We studied avian development in 49 species of temperate and 153 species of tropical New World passerine birds to determine how growth rates, and incubation and nestling periods, varied in relation to other life-history traits. We collected growth data and generated unbiased mass and tarsus growth rate estimates (mass n...

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