Ecological mechanisms of a resource polymorphism in Zenaida Doves of Barbados

Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2397-2407

  Sol, Daniel ^a,b   Elie, Michael ^a   Marcoux, Marianne ^a   Chrostovsky, Eva ^a   Porcher, Céline ^a   Lefebvre, Louis ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Competition; Ecomorphology; Foraging specialization; Social learning

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; POLYMORPHISM;

COLUMBIFORMES; ZENAIDA; ZENAIDA AURITA;

EID: 23944525274     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/04-1136     Document Type: Article

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