Environmental influence and cohort effects in a sexual ornament in the house sparrow, Passer domesticus

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Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 212-224

  Jensen, Henrik ^a   Svorkmo Lundberg, Torkild ^a   Ringsby, Thor Harald ^a   Sæther, Bernt Erik ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; PASSERINE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; SEXUAL SELECTION;

PASSER DOMESTICUS;

EID: 33746354272     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2006.0030-1299.14423.x     Document Type: Article

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