Within-brood social status and consequences for winter hierarchies amongst Mallard Anas platyrhynchos ducklings

Journal of Ornithology

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 195-204

  Poisbleau, Maud ^a,c   Guillemain, Matthieu ^b   Demongin, Laurent ^a   Carslake, David ^a   David, Joan ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b OFFICE NATIONAL DE LA CHASSE ET DE LA FAUNE SAUVAGE   (France)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Duckling; Growth; Heritability; Winter social dominance relationships; Within brood social dominance relationships

Indexed keywords

BIRD; DOMINANCE; JUVENILE; POPULATION GROWTH; WINTER;

ANAS PLATYRHYNCHOS; AVES;

EID: 57649234551     PISSN: 21937192     EISSN: 21937206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10336-008-0334-6     Document Type: Article

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