Røskaft, Eivin; Takasu, Fugo; Moksnes, Arne; Stokke, … - In: Behavioral Ecology 17 (2006) 5, pp. 700-708
We used metapopulation dynamics to develop a mathematical simulation model for brood parasites and their hosts in order to investigate the validity of the "spatial habitat structure hypothesis," which states that a low level of parasite egg rejection in host populations is due to the immigration...