Does brood size manipulation affect later competitive behaviour of offspring?

Behaviour

Volumn 134, Issue 4-5, 1997, Pages 161-172

  De Kogel, C H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Clin Forensic Psychiat De K   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brood size optimization; Dominance; Food competition; Intra sexual competition; Resource holding potential

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040685816     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853997x00430     Document Type: Article

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