Learning the Hard Way: Imprinting Can Enhance Enforced Shifts in Habitat Choice
We investigated the potential importance of learning in habitat choice within a young hybrid zone of two closely related species of birds. Pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) are being excluded from deciduous habitats into a mixed forest type by collared flycatchers (F. albicollis). We investigate...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
2011-01-01
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Series: | International Journal of Ecology |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/287532 |