Applicability of external measurements to sexing of the Cape petrel Daption capense at within-pair, within-population and between-population scales

Journal of Zoology

Volumn 245, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 473-482

  Weidinger, Karel ^a   Van Franeker, Jan Andries ^b  

^a PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Daption capense; Discriminant function analysis; Geographical variability; Petrels; Sexual size dimorphism

Indexed keywords

SEABIRD; SEX DETERMINATION; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ANTARCTICA;

DAPTION CAPERISE;

EID: 0031666403     PISSN: 09528369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952836998008115     Document Type: Article

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