Reversed sexual size dimorphism in motors: Evaluation of the hypotheses in kestrels breeding in a temporally changing environment

Oecologia

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 26-32

  Massemin, Sylvie ^a,b   Korpimäki, Erkki ^a   Wiehn, Jürgen ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Body size; Breeding success; Contrasting selection; Environmental heterogeneity; Vole cycle

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; RAPTOR; SELECTION; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

FINLAND;

FALCO TINNUNCULUS;

EID: 17344379967     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050021     Document Type: Article

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