The adaptiveness of defence strategies against cuckoo parasitism

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1045-1068

  Planqué, Robert ^a   Britton, Nicholas F ^b   Franks, Nigel R ^c   Peletier, Mark A ^a  

^a CWI   (Netherlands)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; CUCULUS; CUCULUS CANORUS;

EID: 0036852472     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bulm.2002.0311     Document Type: Article

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