Sexually dimorphic eggs, nestling growth and sibling competition in American Kestrels Falco sparverius

Functional Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 331-335

  Anderson, D J ^a   Reeve, J ^b   Bird, D M ^c  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Parental care; Sex allocation; Sexual size dimorphism

Indexed keywords

FALCO SPARVERIUS;

AMERICAN KESTREL; EGG SIZE; NESTLING; SEXUAL SIZE DIMORPHISM; SIBLING COMPETITION;

EID: 0030617582     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.1997.00091.x     Document Type: Article

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