Interspecific conflict in lizards: Social dominance depends upon an individual's species not its body size

Austral Ecology

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 869-877

  Langkilde, Tracy ^a,b   Shine, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Egernia; Eulamprus; Shelter; Skink

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CONSPECIFIC; FIGHTING; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LIZARD; NEONATE; SHELTER; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; EGERNIA; EULAMPRUS; REPTILIA; SCINCIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 35948968834     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2007.01771.x     Document Type: Article

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