Part-time mate guarding affects paternity in male reed buntings (Emberiza schoeniclus)

Ethology

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 397-409

  Marthinsen, Gunnhild ^a   Kleven, Oddmund ^a   Brenna, Erik ^a   Lifjeld, Jan T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MALE BEHAVIOR; MATE GUARDING; PASSERINE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

AVES; EMBERIZA SCHOENICLUS; PHRAGMITES;

EID: 17644420739     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2005.01079.x     Document Type: Article

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