Differential predation cost of a secondary sexual character: Sparrowhawk predation on barn swallows

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1545-1551

  Moller A P ^a   Nielsen, J T ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b NONE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARN SWALLOW; PREDATION COST; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTER; SPARROWHAWK;

ACCIPITER NISUS; AVES; HIRUNDINIDAE; HIRUNDO; HIRUNDO RUSTICA;

EID: 0031460024     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.9998     Document Type: Article

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