Risk-taking and survival in the House Sparrow Passer domesticus: Are plumage ornaments costly?

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Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 139-151

  Bókony, Veronika ^a   Liker, András ^b   Lendvai, Ádám Z ^c   Kulcsár, Anna ^a  

^a SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

^c College of Nyíregyháza ^*  (Hungary)

Author keywords

Melanin; Pigmentation; Predation risk; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

COLOR MORPH; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MELANIN; ORNAMENTATION; PASSERINE; PLUMAGE; PREDATION RISK; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIGNALING; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIDAE;

EID: 38049075891     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2007.00756.x     Document Type: Article

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