Consequences of sex-specific growth on sibling competition in black-headed gulls: A sexually-size dimorphic species with scramble competition

Journal of Ornithology

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 495-502

  Müller, Wendt ^a,b   Groothuis, Ton G G ^a   Dijkstra, Cor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Begging; Egg quality; Growth rate; Hatching asynchrony; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

BEGGING BEHAVIOR; BIRD; BODY MASS; EGG; GROWTH RATE; HATCHING; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; SEX RATIO; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SIBLING;

AVES; LARUS RIDIBUNDUS;

EID: 34848842710     PISSN: 21937192     EISSN: 21937206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10336-007-0189-2     Document Type: Article

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