Communal life: Honest signaling and the recruitment center hypothesis

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 115-118

  Richner, Heinz ^a   Heeb, Philipp ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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EID: 6144251055     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/7.1.115     Document Type: Review

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