Predation risk affects courtship and attractiveness of competing threespine stickleback males

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 81-87

  Candolin, Ulrika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Courtship; Female mate choice; Predation risk; Stickleback

Indexed keywords

ATTRACTIVENESS; COURTSHIP; MALE-MALE COMPETITION; PREDATION RISK; THREESPINE STICKLEBACK;

GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 0030863168     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002650050367     Document Type: Article

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