Nestling growth and song repertoire size in great reed warblers: Evidence for song learning as an indicator mechanism in mate choice

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1460, 2000, Pages 2419-2424

  Nowicki, S ^a   Hasselquist, D ^a   Bensch, S ^a   Peters, S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acrocephalus arundinaceus; Female choice; Nutritional stress; Sexual selection; Song repertoire

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; MATE CHOICE; SONG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSORTATIVE MATING; LEARNING; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SONGBIRD;

ACROCEPHALUS ARUNDINACEUS; ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERI; PHRAGMITES;

EID: 0034619834     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1300     Document Type: Article

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