Adaptations by great reed warblers to brood parasitism: A comparison of populations in sympatry and allopatry with the common cuckoo

Behaviour

Volumn 139, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1313-1329

  Moskat C ^a   Szentpeteri J ^b   Barta, Z ^b  

^a Institute and Museum of Military History Budapest   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Acrocephalus arundinaceus; Adaptation; Brood parasitism; Cuculus canorus; Egg rejection; Interclutch variation; Intraclutch variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036821388     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853902321104181     Document Type: Article

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