Morphological versus acoustic analysis: What is the most efficient method for sexing yelkouan shearwaters Puffinus yelkouan?

Journal of Ornithology

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 261-269

  Bourgeois, Karen ^a   Curé, Charlotte ^b   Legrand, Jérôme ^a   Gómez Díaz, Elena ^c   Vidal, Eric ^a   Aubin, Thierry ^b   Mathevon, Nicolas ^b,d  

^a AVIGNON UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

Author keywords

Acoustic parameters; Morphometry; Puffinus yelkouan; Sexing methods; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC METHOD; ECOMORPHOLOGY; ENDEMIC SPECIES; MORPHOMETRY; SEABIRD; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

AVES; PROCELLARIIDAE; PUFFINUS YELKOUAN;

EID: 34447298886     PISSN: 21937192     EISSN: 21937206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10336-007-0127-3     Document Type: Article

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