Female choice selects for lifetime lekking performance in black grouse males

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1433, 1999, Pages 2109-2115

  Kokko, Hanna ^a   Rintamäki, Pekka T ^b   Alatalo, Rauno V ^c   Höglund, Jacob ^b   Karvonen, Eevi ^c   Lundberg, Arne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Female choice; Honest signalling; Long term benefits; Male male competition

Indexed keywords

FEMALE BEHAVIOR; FITNESS; LEK; MATE CHOICE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; FEMALE; FITNESS; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLIFORMES; PHASIANIDAE; TETRAO TETRIX; TETRIX;

EID: 0033595821     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0895     Document Type: Article

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