Bill colour and correlates of male quality in blackbirds: An analysis using canonical ordination

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 123-132

  Bright, A ^a,c   Waas, J R ^a   King, C M ^a   Cuming, P D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b University of Oxford ^*  (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blackbird; Canonical ordination; Carotenoid colouration; Condition dependent traits; Male quality; Turdus merula

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION; CAROTENOID; COLOR; HONEST SIGNALING; ORDINATION; PASSERINE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEAK; BIRD; BRIGHTNESS; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CLOACA; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; ECTOPARASITE; MALE; NEST PREDATION; NONHUMAN; ORDINATION ANALYSIS; PHOTOMETRY; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; REFLECTOMETRY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TERRITORIALITY;

AVES; ENTEROBACTER; TURDUS; TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 1042302107     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2003.08.003     Document Type: Article

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