How many color metrics do we need? Evaluating how different color-scoring procedures explain carotenoid pigment content in avian bare-part and plumage ornaments

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  2011

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  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

• Publication date

  2011-02-01

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  Biology

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  DOI 10.1007/s00265-010-1074-1
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