Male chicks are more costly to rear than females in a monogamous seabird, the Common Murre

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 81-85

  Cameron MacMillan, Maureen L ^a,b   Walsh, Carolyn J ^a   Wilhelm, Sabina I ^a,c   Storey, Anne E ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b Environment Canada ^*  (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Common Murre; Feeding rate; Parental care; Sex differences; Sexual size dimorphism; Uria aalge

Indexed keywords

BROOD REARING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; NESTLING; SEABIRD; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

CANADA; GREAT ISLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NORTH AMERICA;

LARIDAE; URIA AALGE;

EID: 33845870137     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arl048     Document Type: Article

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