The mystery of the missing toes: Extreme levels of natural mutilation in island lizard populations

Functional Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 996-1003

  Vervust, Bart ^a   Van Dongen, Stefan ^b   Grbac, Irena ^c   Van Damme, Raoul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b Department of Biology   (Belgium)

^c Natural History Museum of Croatia   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Aggression; Density; Injury frequency; Intraspecific competition; Podarcis sicula; Sex ratio; Social behaviour

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BONE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INJURY; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; ISLAND; LIMB; LIZARD; MORPHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ANIMALIA; PODARCIS SICULA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 70349317263     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2009.01580.x     Document Type: Article

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