Sexual selection and the risk of extinction in birds

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1526, 2003, Pages 1793-1799

  Morrow, Edward H ^a,c   Pitcher, Trevor E ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation status; Dichromatism; Dimorphism; Species richness; Testis size

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CONSERVATION STATUS; DIMORPHISM; EXTINCTION RISK; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; BODY SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TESTIS SIZE;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 0042834361     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2441     Document Type: Article

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