Sex-specific parental care by incubating little auks (Alle alle)

Ornis Fennica

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 140-148

  Wojczulanis Jakubas, Katarzyna ^a   Jakubas, Dariusz ^a   Stempniewicz, Lech ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; COLONIAL BREEDING; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; INCUBATION; MONOGAMY; NEST SITE; PATERNAL CARE; SEABIRD; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL CONFLICT; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

ALLE ALLE; AVES; PINGUINUS;

EID: 73949140313     PISSN: 00305685     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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