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Gray plumage color is more cryptic than brown in snowy landscapes in a resident color polymorphic bird
Camouflage may promote fitness of given phenotypes in different environments. The tawny owl (Strix aluco) is a color polymorphic species with a gray and brown morph resident in the Western Palearctic. A strong selection pressure against the brown morph during snowy and cold winters has been document...
Autores principales: | Koskenpato, Katja, Lehikoinen, Aleksi, Lindstedt, Carita, Karell, Patrik |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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John Wiley and Sons Inc.
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7042677/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32128114 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5914 |
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