A novel framework to study colour signalling to multiple species

Functional Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 718-729

  Renoult, Julien P ^a   Courtiol, Alexandre ^b,c   Schaefer, H Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b WISSENSCHAFTSKOLLEG ZU BERLIN   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive landscape; Bird; Colour space; Colour vision; Community; Private communication channel; Signal

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COLOR MORPH; CONSPECIFIC; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENERALIST; NATURAL SELECTION; SAMPLING; SIGNALING; SONGBIRD;

AVES; PASSERI; RAPTORES;

EID: 84878205020     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12086     Document Type: Article

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