Experimental evidence for the cost of polygyny in the red-winged blackbird agelaius phoeniceus

Behaviour

Volumn 137, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1153-1173

  Pribil, Stanislav ^a  

^a Department of Biology   (United States)

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EID: 0034369124     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853900502574     Document Type: Article

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