Responses of great reed warblers Acrocephalus arundinaceus to experimental brood parasitism: The effects of a cuckoo Cuculus canorus dummy and egg mimicry

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 420-425

  Bártol, István ^a,e   Karcza, Zsolt ^b,f   Moskát, Csaba ^c   Røskaft, Eivin ^d   Kisbenedek, Tibor ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b Hungarian Ornithological and Nature Conservation Society/Birdlife Hungary   (Hungary)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^e Nemzeti Park Igazgatosagok Hungary   (Hungary)

^f Institute for Environment Management   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITE DEFENSE; BROOD PARASITISM; EGG REJECTION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MIMICRY;

HUNGARY;

ACROCEPHALUS; ACROCEPHALUS ARUNDINACEUS; CUCULUS CANORUS; PHRAGMITES; STREPTOPELIA; STREPTOPELIA DECAOCTO;

EID: 0036955552     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-048X.2002.02945.x     Document Type: Article

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