Evolution and life-history correlates of female song in the New World blackbirds

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 967-977

  Price, J Jordan ^a  

^a ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestral state reconstruction; Comparative methods; Duetting; Female bird song; Life history; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; HABITAT QUALITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; PARASITISM; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; RECONSTRUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SONG; SONGBIRD;

AVES; CACICUS; GYMNOSTINOPS; ICTERIDAE; ICTERUS (BIRD); MOLOTHRUS; PASSERI; PSAROCOLIUS; TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 70349466638     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arp085     Document Type: Article

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