Male ornamentation, timing of breeding, and cost of polygyny in the collared flycatcher

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 68-73

  Qvarnström, Anna ^a,b   Sheldon, Ben C ^c   Pärt, Tomas ^b,d   Gustafsson, Lars ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Collared flycatchers; Extrapair mating; Ficedula abicollis; Ornamentation; Polygyny; Timing of breeding

Indexed keywords

BREEDING; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; MALE; ORNAMENTATION; PASSERINE; POLYGYNY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

FICEDULA; FICEDULA ALBICOLLIS; PASSERIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037281072     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/14.1.68     Document Type: Article

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