Interactions among performance capacities predict male combat outcomes in the field cricket

Functional Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 159-164

  Hall, Matthew D ^a   McLaren, Luke ^a   Brooks, Robert C ^a   Lailvaux, Simon P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

Author keywords

Locomotion; Male combat; Multivariate; Performance; Response surface; Teleogryllus commodus

Indexed keywords

CONSPECIFIC; FIGHTING; INSECT; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; LOCOMOTION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; GRYLLINAE; TELEOGRYLLUS COMMODUS; TELEOGRYLLUS OCEANICUS;

EID: 73949129396     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2009.01611.x     Document Type: Article

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