Biometric sex discrimination is unreliable when sexual dimorphism varies within and between years: An example in Eurasian Oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus

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Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 171-180

  Van De Pol, Martijn ^a   Oosterbeek, Kees ^b   Rutten, Anne L ^c   Ens, Bruno J ^b   Tinbergen, Joost M ^c   Verhulst, Simon ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b SOVON DUTCH CENTRE FOR FIELD ORNITHOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bill morphology; Environmental variation; Feeding ecology; Sex ratio bias; Shellfish

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRY; CALIBRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FEEDING ECOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; WADER;

AVES; HAEMATOPODIDAE; HAEMATOPUS OSTRALEGUS;

EID: 58149086912     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2008.00891.x     Document Type: Article

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