Re: Ref.s (Was Armadillo) follow up

[John Bois <jbois@umd5.umd.edu>]

Oh, Jeez.  In quoting, I abbreviated rather ruthlessly--I don't believe I
changed the meaning, but I have made the authors sound like bad
writers--they're not.

On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, John Bois wrote:

> Finally, while I'm on the subject of references:  Martin, T. E.,
> J. Scott, C. Menge. 2000. Nest predation increases with parental
> activity: separating nest site and parental activity effects. Proceedings
> of the Royal Society, London B. Biological Sciences. 267: 2287-2293.
> 
> They have discovered that in a wide variety of bird species nest
> provisioning has a predation cost, and that nest sites have "highly
> repeatable effects on nest predation risk".  They
> conclude: "...(the) measurement of nest predation as a selective force
> needs careful consideration.  (It) has been neglected, but clearly
> (deserves) more attention in understanding variation in measured nest
> predation and its influence on the evolution of parental care behaviours
> and other phenotypic traits."
> 
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