Infanticide or interference: Does the great reed warbler selectively destroy eggs?

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 272-277

  Trnka, Alfréd ^a   Prokop, Pavol ^a,b   Batáry, Péter ^c  

^a TRNAVA UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIRD; CONSPECIFIC; EGG; FOOD CONSUMPTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INFANTICIDE; INTERFERENCE COMPETITION; INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MONOGAMY; NATURAL SELECTION; NEST SITE; POLYGAMY; SONGBIRD;

ACROCEPHALUS ARUNDINACEUS; AVES; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 77957312354     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5735/086.047.0405     Document Type: Article

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