Variable social mating system in the sedge warbler, Acrocephalus schoenobaenus

Ethology

Volumn 104, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 759-769

  Hasselquist, Dennis ^a   Langefors, Åsa ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; MALE; MATING SYSTEM; MONOGAMY; POLYANDRY; POLYGYNY; REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURES; SEX RATIO; SWEDEN;

PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

SWEDEN;

ACROCEPHALUS SCHOENOBAENUS; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0031669464     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1998.tb00109.x     Document Type: Article

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