Fitness consequences of divorce in the oystercatcher, Haematopus ostralegus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 175-184

  Heg, Dik ^a,b,c   Bruinzeel, Leo W ^a   Ens, Bruno J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; DIVORCE; FITNESS; PAIR BOND; SOCIAL STATUS;

AVES; HAEMATOPODIDAE; HAEMATOPUS; HAEMATOPUS OSTRALEGUS;

EID: 0042813692     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2188     Document Type: Article

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