The honesty of bird song: Multiple constraints for multiple traits

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 133-141

  Gil, Diego ^a   Gahr, Manfred ^b  

^a Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive CNRS UMR 7103 UFR 927   (France)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; EVOLUTION; HONEST SIGNALING; SEXUAL SELECTION; SONG;

AGE; AGGRESSION; BIOLOGY; BIRD; COST; EVOLUTION; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; REVIEW; SEXUAL SELECTION; SINGING;

AVES;

EID: 0036498249     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(02)02410-2     Document Type: Review

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