Selection on body size in a raptor with pronounced reversed sexual size dimorphism: Are bigger females better?

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 48-56

  McDonald, Paul G ^a,b   Olsen, Penny D ^a   Cockburn, Andrew ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body condition; Falco berigora; Reversed sexual size dimorphism; Size

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION; BODY SIZE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION; RAPTOR; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

FALCO; FALCO BERIGORA; RAPTORES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 12244298483     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arh118     Document Type: Article

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