Seasonal changes in brood sex composition in Audouin's Gulls

Condor

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 783-790

  Genovart, Meritxell ^a,b,c   Oro, Daniel ^a   Ruiz, Xavier ^b   Griffiths, Richard ^c   Monaghan, Pat ^c   Nager, Ruedi G ^c  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audouin's Gull; Food availability; Larus audouinii; Seasonal change; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

LARUS AUDOUINII; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0042222259     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/7265     Document Type: Article

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