Badge size, paternity assurance behaviours and paternity losses in male house sparrows

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 315-318

  Václav, Radovan ^a   Hoi, Herbert ^a,b   Blomqvist, Donald ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMINANCE; PASSERINE; PATERNITY; TIME ALLOCATION;

PASSER; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIDAE; PASSERIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036742616     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-048X.2002.330315.x     Document Type: Article

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