Fitness components associated with alternative reproductive tactics in cliff swallows

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 158-171

  Brown, Charles R ^a   Brown, Mary Bomberger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative reproductive tactics; Brood parasitism; Cliff swallows; Coloniality; Extrapair copulation; Fitness; Life history; Petrochelidon pyrrhonota; Reproductive success; Social behavior; Survival

Indexed keywords

BROOD PARASITISM; CLIFF SWALLOW; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; FITNESS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

AVES; HIRUNDINIDAE; HIRUNDO PYRRHONOTA; OECIACUS VICARIUS; PASSERIFORMES; PETROCHELIDON PYRRHONOTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031971397     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/9.2.158     Document Type: Article

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