Spatial patterns of extra‐pair paternity for spotted towhees Pipilo maculatus in urban parks

The extra‐pair (EP) mating system of birds may be influenced by food resources, such that nutritionally stressed females are unable to pursue EP fertilizations (constrained female hypothesis; CFH), or that females on poor territories acquire EP fertilizations during extra‐territorial forays in searc...

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Main Authors: Sarah Bartos Smith, Jenny E. McKay, Michael T. Murphy, Deborah A. Duffield
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2016-12-01
Series:Journal of Avian Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.00931