Differential predator escape performance contributes to a latitudinal sex ratio cline in a migratory shorebird

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 44-50

  Nebel, Silke ^a,b   Ydenberg, Ronald C ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Differential migration; Mortality risk; Predation danger; Sex ratio cline; Western sandpiper

Indexed keywords

ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MORTALITY; PREDATION RISK; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; WADER;

AVES; CALIDRIS MAURI; UNGULATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 27744563477     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-005-0007-x     Document Type: Article

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