Should males come first? The relationship between offspring hatching order and sex in the black-headed gull Larus ridibundus

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 478-483

  Ležalová, Radka ^a   Tkadlec, Emil ^b   Oborník, Miroslav ^a   Šimek, Jaroslav ^a   Honza, Marcel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GROWTH RATE; HATCHING; PHENOLOGY; SEABIRD; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

AVES; LARUS RIDIBUNDUS;

EID: 28044444290     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0908-8857.2005.03466.x     Document Type: Article

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