Sex-specific growth patterns and effects of hatching condition on growth in the reversed sexually size-dimorphic great skua Stercorarius skua

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 358-368

  Kalmbach, Ellen ^a,b   Griffiths, Richard ^a   Furness, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute for Demographic Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; HATCHING; ONTOGENY; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; SEABIRD; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; VULNERABILITY;

AVES; CATHARACTA SKUA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 67849111416     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: 1600048X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2008.04339.x     Document Type: Article

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