Male territoriality, female range use, and spatial organisation of capercaillie Tetrao urogallus leks

Wildlife Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 149-161

  Storch, Ilse ^a  

^a Munich Wildlife Society   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capercaillie; Female preference model; Hotspot model; Lek; Range use; Territoriality; Tetrao urogallus

Indexed keywords

TETRAO UROGALLUS;

EID: 0031408524     PISSN: 09096396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2981/wlb.1997.019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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