Egg Discrimination in an Open Nesting Passerine Under Dim Light Conditions

Ethology

Volumn 117, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1128-1137

  Antonov, Anton ^a   Avilés, Jesús M ^b   Stokke, Bård G ^a   Spasova, Velislava ^c   Vikan, Johan R ^a   Moksnes, Arne ^a   Yang, Canchao ^d,e   Liang, Wei ^e   Røskaft, Eivin ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^d SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e HAINAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BROOD PARASITISM; COEVOLUTION; COLOR; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EGG REJECTION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LIGHT EFFECT; MIMICRY; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PASSERINE; SYMPATRY;

AVES; CUCULUS CANORUS; LUSCINIA MEGARHYNCHOS; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 80055023966     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.01969.x     Document Type: Article

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