Parental care and polygyny in the chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita

Behaviour

Volumn 133, Issue 13-14, 1996, Pages 1077-1094

  Rodrigues, Marcos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIFFCHAFF; HABITAT QUALITY; PARENTAL CARE; POLYGYNY THRESHOLD MODEL;

PHYLLOSCOPUS COLLYBITA;

EID: 0030429001     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853996X00602     Document Type: Article

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