Bright Male Plumage and Predation Risk in Passerine Birds: Are Males Easier to Detect Than Females?

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• Publication year

  1995

• Venue

  Oikos

• Publication date

  1995-12-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.2307/3545993
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  Semantic Scholar

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