Conspicuousness, not colour as foraging cue in plant-animal signalling

Oikos

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 551-557

  Schmidt, Veronika ^a,b,c   Schaefer, Hinrich Martin ^a,b,c   Winkler, Hans ^a  

^a KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; FOOD SELECTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FRUGIVORY; FRUIT; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLIFORMES;

EID: 3242884562     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2004.12769.x     Document Type: Article

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