Regular ArticleBadge size in collared flycatchers predicts outcome of male competition over territories
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Correspondence: T. Pärt, Department of Conservation Biology, The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7002, S-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden (email: [email protected]).
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A. Qvarnström is at the Department of Zoology, Uppsala University, Villavägen 9, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden.
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