Sex determination of great cormorants (Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis) using morphometric measurements

Waterbirds

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 203-210

  Liordos, Vasilios ^a,b   Goutner, Vassilis ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Discriminant analysis; Great Cormorant; Greece; Morphometrics; Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis; Sexual size dimorphism

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; DIMORPHISM; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MORPHOMETRY; SEX DETERMINATION; WADER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

AVES; PHALACROCORAX CARBO; PHALACROCORAX CARBO SINENSIS;

EID: 58049096999     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/1524-4695(2008)31[203:SDOGCP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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