Temperature modulates competitive behaviour: Why sand goby males fight more in warmer water

Ethology Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 105-114

  Kvarnemo, Charlotta ^a,b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mating competition; Operational sex ratio; Pomatoschistus minutus; Sand goby; Temperature

Indexed keywords

FISH; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MALE BEHAVIOR; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

POMATOSCHISTUS MINUTUS;

EID: 0031794181     PISSN: 03949370     EISSN: 18287131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927014.1998.9522860     Document Type: Article

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