Sex-specific foraging behaviour in tropical boobies: Does size matter?

Ibis

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 408-414

  Lewis, Sue ^a   Schreiber, E A ^b   Daunt, Francis ^a   Schenk, Gary A ^b   Orr, Kate ^c   Adams, Aileen ^c   Wanless, Sarah ^a   Hamer, Keith C ^d  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; SEABIRD; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

AVES; LEUCOGASTER; SULA LEUCOGASTER; SULA SULA; SULIDAE;

EID: 17444427751     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.2005.00428.x     Document Type: Article

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