Nests as ornaments: Revealing construction by male sticklebacks

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 390-396

  Barber, Iain ^a,b   Nairn, David ^a   Huntingford, Felicity A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carotenoids; Fish; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Nest architecture; Nest building; Nest construction; Nest quality; Pisces; Sexual selection; Sticklebacks

Indexed keywords

FISH; MALE BEHAVIOR; NEST STRUCTURE; ORNAMENTATION;

ANIMALIA; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; PISCES;

EID: 0034944840     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/12.4.390     Document Type: Article

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