Direct and indirect assessment of parasitism risk by a cuckoo host

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 783-789

  Welbergen, Justin A ^a,b   Davies, Nicholas B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

brood parasites; coevolution; direct cues; host defense; indirect cues; phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

BROOD PARASITISM; COEVOLUTION; HOST USE; MOBBING; NEST GUARDING; PERCHING BEHAVIOR; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RAPTOR; RISK ASSESSMENT; SONGBIRD; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ACROCEPHALUS; ACROCEPHALUS SCIRPACEUS; AVES; CUCULIDAE; CUCULUS CANORUS; RAPTORES;

EID: 84862754127     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/ars031     Document Type: Article

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