Sex allocation and nestling survival in a dimorphic raptor: does size matter?

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McDonald, Paul
Olsen, Penelope
Cockburn, Andrew

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Oxford University Press

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Fisher's theory predicts equal sex ratios at the end of parental care if the costs and benefits associated with raising each sex of offspring are equal. In raptors, which display various degrees of reversed sexual size dimorphism (RSD; females the larger

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Behavioral Ecology

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2037-12-31