May random processes explain mating success in leks?

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 227-237

  Focardi, Stefano ^a   Tinelli, Aleandro ^b  

^a Istituto Nazionale per la Fauna Selvatica   (Italy)

^b Tenuta Presidenziale Castelporziano   (Italy)

Author keywords

Lek; Mate choice; Mating distribution; Random mating; Sexual selection; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COPULATION; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PROBABILITY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIMULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES; STATISTICS;

EID: 0029942115     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0376-6357(95)00032-1     Document Type: Article

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