Individual variation in response to simulated territorial challenge among territory-holding song sparrows

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 253-259

  Nowicki, Stephen ^a   Searcy, William A ^b   Krueger, Terry ^b   Hughes, Melissa ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Biology   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; PASSERINE; SONGBIRD; TERRITORIALITY;

AVES; MELOSPIZA; MELOSPIZA MELODIA; PASSERI; PASSERIDAE; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0036742663     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-048X.2002.330307.x     Document Type: Article

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