Sex allocation in response to local resource competition over breeding territories

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 335-339

  Hjernquist, Mrten B ^a   Thuman Hjernquist, Katherine A ^a   Forsman, Jukka T ^a,b   Gustafsson, Lars ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Collared flycatcher; Ficedula; Local resource competition; Primary sex ratio; Sex allocation; Territory availability

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SITE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); HABITAT QUALITY; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PASSERINE; PHILOPATRY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO; TERRITORIALITY;

AVES; FICEDULA; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 64949147371     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arp002     Document Type: Article

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