Song divergence and male dispersal among bird populations: A spatially explicit model testing the role of vocal learning

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 671-681

  Ellers, Jacintha ^a,c   Slabbekoorn, Hans ^b,d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; DIVERGENCE; LEARNING; MALE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SONG; VOCALIZATION;

AVES;

EID: 0037394682     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2081     Document Type: Article

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