Juvenile survival in a neotropical migratory songbird is lower than expected.

Attempts to estimate and identify factors influencing first-year survival in passerines, survival between fledging and the first reproductive attempt (i.e. juvenile survival), have largely been confounded by natal dispersal, particularly in long-distance migratory passerines. We studied Prothonotary...

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Main Authors: Matthew I McKim-Louder, Jeffrey P Hoover, Thomas J Benson, Wendy M Schelsky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3568049?pdf=render