Social dominance correlates and family status in wintering dark-bellied brent geese, Branta bernicla bernicla

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1351-1358

  Poisbleau, Maud ^a   Fritz, Hervé ^a   Valeix, Marion ^a   Perroi, Pierre Yves ^a   Dalloyau, Sébastien ^a   Lambrechts, Marcel M ^b  

^a CENTRE D ETUDES BIOLOGIQUES DE CHIZÉ   (France)

^b CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIRD; BODY SIZE; BREEDING; DOMINANCE; MIGRATION; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS; RESOURCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STATUS; SURVIVAL;

ANATIDAE; ANSER; ANSER SP.; BRANTA; BRANTA BERNICLA BERNICLA;

EID: 33744973835     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.09.014     Document Type: Article

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