Should I Stay or Should I Go Now: Late Establishment and Low Site Fidelity as Alternative Territorial Behaviors

Ethology

Volumn 117, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 979-991

  Hughes, Melissa ^a   Hyman, Jeremy ^b  

^a School of Business   (United States)

^b WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; MIGRATORY SPECIES; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SITE FIDELITY; SONGBIRD; TERRITORIALITY;

MELOSPIZA;

EID: 80053896961     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.01950.x     Document Type: Article

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