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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2016-12-01
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Series: | Journal of Avian Biology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.00931 |