Extra-pair paternity and song characteristics in the willow warbler Phylloscopus trochilus

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 291-297

  Gil, Diego ^a,b   Slater, Peter J B ^a   Graves, Jeff A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; MATE ATTRACTION; MATE CHOICE; MATE GUARDING; MATING SUCCESS; PASSERINE; PATERNITY; SEXUAL SELECTION; SONG; TERRITORY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES; PHYLLOSCOPUS; PHYLLOSCOPUS TROCHILUS; SALIX;

EID: 34247891559     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: 1600048X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2007.0908-8857.03868.x     Document Type: Article

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