Delayed maturation in birds in relation to social foraging and breeding competition

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 589-596

  Beauchamp, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Birds; Breeding competition; Cooperative breeding; Delayed maturation; Flocking; Pairwise comparative method; Plumage dichromatism

Indexed keywords

AVES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 2542492569     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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