Incubation Feeding and Nest Attentiveness in a Socially Monogamous Songbird: Role of Feather Colouration, Territory Quality and Ambient Environment

Ethology

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 596-607

  Matysioková, Beata ^a   Remeš, Vladimír ^a  

^a PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATHER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD SUPPLY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INCUBATION; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PIGMENT; PLUMAGE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SIGNALING; SONGBIRD; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TERRITORY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PARUS MAJOR; PASSERI;

EID: 77954594141     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01776.x     Document Type: Article

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