Intersexual niche differentiation in the blue tit (Parus caeruleus)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 233-244

  Przybylo, Robert ^a   Merilä, Juha ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Assortative mating; Food abundance; Food diversity; Reproductive role division; Sexual size dimorphism

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD PROVISIONING; INTERSEXUAL INTERACTION; NICHE PARTITIONING; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

AVES; PARUS CAERULEUS;

EID: 0033840618     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1999.0357     Document Type: Article

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