Dominance in feeding territories relates to foraging success and offspring growth in brown skuas Catharacta antarctica lonnbergi

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1149-1157

  Hahn, Steffen ^a,b,c   Bauer, Silke ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c SWISS ORNITHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aggression; Dominance hierarchy; Growth trajectory; Seabird; Territorial fights; Territoriality

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; DOMINANCE; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; FOOD PREFERENCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH RATE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEABIRD; TERRITORIALITY; TRAJECTORY;

AVES; CATHARACTA; CATHARACTA ANTARCTICA; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 42449127935     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-007-0543-7     Document Type: Article

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