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Territory establishment in lekking marine iguanas, Amblyrhynchus cristatus: support for the hotshot mechanism | Semantic Scholar

@article{Partecke2002TerritoryEI,
  title={Territory establishment in lekking marine iguanas, Amblyrhynchus cristatus: support for the hotshot mechanism},
  author={Jesko Partecke and Arndt von Haeseler and Martin Wikelski},
  journal={Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology},
  year={2002},
  volume={51},
  pages={579-587},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:2132629}
}

Most male–male interactions served to distract successful males and may lead to spatial spillover of females into territories of unsuccessful males, which appears largely governed by hotshot processes in marine iguanas.

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