Sexing Forster's Terns using morphometric measurements

Waterbirds

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 512-517

  Bluso, Jill D ^a   Ackerman, Joshua T ^b,c   Takekawa, John Y ^c   Yee, Julie L ^c  

^a HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discriminant function analysis; Forster's Tern; San Francisco Bay; Sex differences; Sexual size dimorphism; Sterna forsteri

Indexed keywords

FIELD METHOD; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; SEABIRD; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; UNITED STATES;

LARIDAE; STERNA FORSTERI;

EID: 33847358770     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/1524-4695(2006)29[512:SFTUMM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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