Social relationships due to sex, age and morphology in Great Tits Parus major wintering in a mountainous habitat of Central Spain

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Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 19-27

  Barluenga, Marta ^a   Barbosa, Andrés ^a   Moreno, Eulalia ^b  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Age; Body mass; Dominance; Great Tit; Morphology; Parus major; Sex; Size; Subordination; Winter

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002958980     PISSN: 05707358     EISSN: 23410825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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