Spatial movements and social networks in juvenile male song sparrows

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 141-152

  Templeton, Christopher N ^a   Reed, Veronica A ^a   Campbell, S Elizabeth ^a   Beecher, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JUVENILE; LEARNING; MATE ATTRACTION; MOVEMENT; ONTOGENY; RADIOTELEMETRY; SOCIAL NETWORK; SONG; SONGBIRD; SURVIVAL; TERRITORIALITY; YOUNG POPULATION;

AVES; MELOSPIZA; MELOSPIZA MELODIA; PASSERI;

EID: 84555170594     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arr167     Document Type: Article

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