Decoupling of behavioural and morphological differentiation in a partially migratory bird population

Bird Study

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 29-38

  Morganti, Michelangelo ^a,c   Akesson, Susanne ^b   Pulido, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BREEDING POPULATION; CONSPECIFIC; MIGRATORY POPULATION; MORPHOLOGY; PASSERINE;

SPAIN;

AVES; SYLVIA ATRICAPILLA;

EID: 84922401805     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063657.2014.971703     Document Type: Article

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