Antiparasite behaviour in response to experimental brood parasitism in the great reed warbler: A comparison of single and multiple parasitism

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 627-633

  Honza, Marcel ^a   Moskát, Csaba ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b Institute and Museum of Military History Budapest   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITE DEFENSE; BROOD PARASITISM; EGG REJECTION;

ACROCEPHALUS ARUNDINACEUS; AVES; CUCULUS CANORUS;

EID: 30744434364     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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