Reversed sexual dimorphism in tawny owls, Strix aluco, correlates with duty division in breeding effort

Oikos

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 265-278

  Sunde, Peter ^a,b   Bølstad, Mikkel S ^a   Møller, Julie D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; MOVEMENT; NICHE PARTITIONING; RAPTOR; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; RAPTORES; STRIGIFORMES; STRIX ALUCO;

EID: 0037499866     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2003.12203.x     Document Type: Article

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