Aggression in White-crowned Sparrows: Effects of distance from cover and group size

Condor

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 245-252

  Slotow, Robert ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

cover; group size; predation risk; Zonotrichia leucophrys

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029786205     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369142     Document Type: Article

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