Pushy males and choosy females: Courtship disruption and mate choice in the lekking great snipe

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1425, 1999, Pages 1227-1234

  Sæther, Stein Are ^a   Fiske, Peder ^a,b   Kålås, John Atle ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Disruption; Dominance; Gallinago media; Harassment; Lek paradox; Mate choice

Indexed keywords

COURTSHIP; LEK; MATE CHOICE; WADER;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CHARADRIIFORMES; GALLINAGO MEDIA; SCOLOPACIDAE;

EID: 0008769663     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0767     Document Type: Article

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