Does decoration theft lead to an honest relationship between male quality and signal size in great bowerbirds?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 747-755

  Doerr, Natalie R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

animal construction; extended phenotype; great bowerbird; honest signalling; male male competition; Ptilonorhynchus nuchalis; spatial ecology

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; HONEST SIGNALING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; PASSERINE; PHENOTYPE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZATION;

ANIMALIA; CHLAMYDERA NUCHALIS; PTILONORHYNCHIDAE; PTILONORHYNCHUS;

EID: 76449115244     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.12.032     Document Type: Article

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