Bill dimorphism and foraging niche partitioning in the green woodhoopoe

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 258-269

  Radford, Andrew N ^a   Du Plessis, Morné A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Interference competition; Phoeniculus purpureus; Sexual differences; Social dominance; Specialization hypothesis

Indexed keywords

BIRD; DIMORPHISM; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; INTERFERENCE COMPETITION; NICHE PARTITIONING; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE;

AVES; INVERTEBRATA; PHOENICULUS PURPUREUS; PHOENICURUS; PHOENICURUS PURPUREUS;

EID: 0037359115     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2656.2003.00697.x     Document Type: Article

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