The role of weather and migration in assortative pairing within the northern flicker (Colaptes auratus) hybrid zone

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 887-903

  Flockhart, D T Tyler ^a   Wiebe, Karen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assortative mating; Bounded hybrid superiority hypothesis; Colaptes auratus; Hybridization; Migration; North Atlantic Oscillation; Northern flicker

Indexed keywords

COLAPTES; COLAPTES AURATUS;

EID: 35349031751     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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