Urban and colorful male house finches are less aggressive

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 641-649

  Hasegawa, Masaru ^a,c   Ligon, Russell A ^b   Giraudeau, Mathieu ^b   Watanabe, Mamoru ^a   Mcgraw, Kevin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aggression; Competition; Haemorhous mexicanus; Plumage coloration; Sexual selection; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BODY CONDITION; COLOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FITNESS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MALE BEHAVIOR; PLUMAGE; PREDATION RISK; SEXUAL SELECTION; SONGBIRD; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; WILD POPULATION;

EID: 84900856360     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/aru034     Document Type: Article

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