Sex-specific development of avian flight performance under experimentally altered rearing conditions

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 967-973

  Verspoor, Jan J ^a   Love, Oliver P ^a   Rowland, Eloise ^a   Chin, Eunice H ^b,c   Williams, Tony D ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Development; Escape performance; European starling; Flight ability; Predation risk; Sexual size dimorphism

Indexed keywords

ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; LIFE HISTORY; MIGRATION; MORPHOLOGY; NESTLING; PASSERINE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION RISK; REARING; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SIZE STRUCTURE; SURVIVAL;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 35848941925     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arm089     Document Type: Article

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