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SUBMITTER: Robb GN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2429937 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Robb Gillian N GN McDonald Robbie A RA Chamberlain Dan E DE Reynolds S James SJ Harrison Timothy J E TJ Bearhop Stuart S
Biology letters 20080401 2
Supplementary food given to birds can have contemporary effects by reducing the risk of starvation, increasing survival and altering movements and reproductive performance. There is, however, a widely held perception that birds benefit from extra food over winter, but that it is better that they 'look after themselves' during breeding. Here we describe a landscape-scale experiment showing for the first time that the effects of increasing food availability only during the winter can be carried ov ...[more]