Habitat quality, social dominance and dawn chorus song output in black-capped chickadees

Ethology

Volumn 112, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 772-778

  Van Oort, Harry ^a   Otter, Ken A ^a   Fort, Kevin T ^b   Holschuh, Carmen I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c Westland Resource Group   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; DOMINANCE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HABITAT QUALITY; MATE CHOICE; SIGNAL; SONG;

AVES; PARUS ATRICAPILLUS;

EID: 33745902555     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2006.01228.x     Document Type: Article

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