Ultraviolet crown colouration affects contest outcomes among male blue tits, but only in the absence of prior encounters

Functional Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 417-425

  Vedder, Oscar ^a   Schut, Elske ^a   Magrath, Michael J L ^a,b   Komdeur, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aggression; Armament; Male male competition; Personality; Social dominance; Status signal; Structural colouration

Indexed keywords

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CAPTIVITY; CAROTENOID; DOMINANCE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FIGHTING; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MELANIN; PASSERINE; PATCH USE; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SIGNALING; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALIA; CYANISTES CAERULEUS;

EID: 77950194503     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2009.01660.x     Document Type: Article

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