Male ornamentation, timing of breeding, and cost of polygyny in the collared flycatcher

Highly ornamented males are often thought to be better able to provide females with resources, parental assistance, or good genes. Individual variation in such male abilities may override the costs of polygyny and therefore largely explain within-population variation in mating patterns. We investiga...

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Những tác giả chính: Qvarnstrom, A, Sheldon, B, Part, T, Gustafsson, L
Định dạng: Journal article
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: 2003