Ventral colour polymorphism correlates with alternative behavioural patterns in female common lizards (Lacerta vivipara)

Ecoscience

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 320-326

  Vercken, Elodie ^a,c   Clobert, Jean ^b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b École Nationale de Formation Agronomique   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Laboratory staged encounters; Resource holding potential; Signals; Social competition

Indexed keywords

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ENCOUNTER RATE; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIZARD; POLYMORPHISM;

SQUAMATA; ZOOTOCA VIVIPARA;

EID: 45149091927     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2980/15-3-3135     Document Type: Article

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