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Simon Verhulst, Joost M. Tinbergen, Experimental Evidence for a Causal Relationship between Timing and Success of Reproduction in the Great Tit Parus m. major, Journal of Animal Ecology, Vol. 60, No. 1 (Feb., 1991), pp. 269-282
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