Asymmetric territorial contests in the European robin: The role of settlement costs

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 9-21

  Tobias, Joe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROBIN; SETTLEMENT COST; TERRITORIALITY; VALUE ASYMMETRY;

ERITHACUS RUBECULA; TURDUS;

EID: 0031193922     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0383     Document Type: Article

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