Partnerships and mechanisms of divorce in the great skua

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1475-1482

  Catry, Paulo ^b   Ratcliffe, Norman ^b   Furness, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETTER OPTION HYPOTHESIS; DIVORCE; GREAT SKUA; INCOMPATIBILITY HYPOTHESIS;

FOULA; SCOTLAND; SHETLAND; UK;

AVES; CATHARACTA SKUA; CHARADRIIFORMES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0031473341     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0552     Document Type: Article

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