Female calls in lek-mating birds: Indirect mate choice, female competition for mates, or direct mate choice?

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 344-352

  Sæther, Stein Are ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Female competition; Female song; Gallinago media; Great snipe; Indirect mate choice; Lekking; Mate sampling

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); LEK; MATE ATTRACTION; MATE CHOICE; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; GALLINAGO; GALLINAGO MEDIA;

EID: 0036558760     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/13.3.344     Document Type: Article

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