The empirical question of thresholds and mechanisms of mate choice

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 447-455

  Valone, Thomas J ^a   Nordell, Shawn E ^a   Giraldeau, Luc Alain ^b   Templeton, Jennifer J ^b,c  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

decision rules; mate choice criteria; sample based decisions; sexual selection; threshold based decisions

Indexed keywords

MATE CHOICE; SAMPLE-BASED DECISION; SEXUAL SELECTION; THRESHOLD-BASED DECISION;

EID: 0029659640     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01237729     Document Type: Article

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