No assortative mating based on size in black guillemots breeding in the Canadian arctic

Waterbirds

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 459-463

  Berzins, Lisha L ^a   Gilchrist, H Grant ^b   Burness, Gary ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Black guillemot; Discriminant analysis; Mate choice; Sexual size dimorphism

Indexed keywords

ASSORTATIVE MATING; BODY SIZE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MONOGYNY; MORPHOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; WADER;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC;

ALCIDAE; CEPPHUS GRYLLE;

EID: 71949122030     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/063.032.0313     Document Type: Article

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