Adaptive significance of permanent female mimicry in a bird of prey

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 167-170

  Sternalski, Audrey ^a,b   Mougeot, François ^c   Bretagnolle, Vincent ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^b Villiers en Bois Beauvoir sur Niort   (France)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alternative behavioural strategies; Colour morph; Marsh harrier; Paternity assurance; Sexual dichromatism

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ADULT; AGGRESSION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COLOR MORPH; FEMALE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION; MALE; MIMICRY; PATERNITY; PHENOTYPE; PLUMAGE; RAPTOR; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; TERRITORIALITY;

AVES; CIRCUS AERUGINOSUS; RAPTORES;

EID: 84858973609     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0914     Document Type: Article

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