Nest defence and egg rejection in great reed warblers over the breeding cycle: Are they synchronised with the risk of brood parasitism?

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 579-586

  Moskát, Csaba ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITE DEFENSE; BROOD PARASITISM; COEVOLUTION; EGG REJECTION;

ACROCEPHALUS ARUNDINACEUS; AVES; CUCULUS CANORUS;

EID: 30744461364     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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