Annual, sexual, size- and condition-related variation in the colour and fluorescent pigment content of yellow crest-feathers in snares penguins (eudyptes robustus)

Emu

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 93-99

  McGraw, Kevin J ^a   Massaro, Melanie ^b,c   Rivers, Trevor J ^a   Mattern, Thomas ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; COLOR; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONSPECIFIC; FEATHER; PIGMENT; PLUMAGE; SEABIRD; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL; SIZE EFFECT;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; AVES; EUDYPTES ROBUSTUS; PAPILIONOIDEA; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 67650992002     PISSN: 01584197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MU08034     Document Type: Article

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