Functional significance of sexual dimorphism in Wandering Albatrosses, Diomedea exulans

Functional Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 203-210

  Shaffer, S A ^a   Weimerskirch, H ^b   Costa, D P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Crozet; Flight performance; Morphometrics; Sex differences in foraging

Indexed keywords

FLIGHT ACTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; SEABIRD; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WING MORPHOLOGY;

FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0035048476     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.2001.00514.x     Document Type: Article

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