Women from Venus, men from Mars: Inter-sex foraging differences in the imperial cormorant Phalacrocorax atriceps a colonial seabird

Oikos

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 350-358

  Quintana, Flavio ^a,b   Wilson, Rory ^c   Dell'Arciprete, Patricia ^a   Shepard, Emily ^c   Laich, Agustina Gómez ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL PATAGÓNICO   (Argentina)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (Argentina)

^c SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; COLONY; DIVING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; GPS; HABITAT USE; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; PREY SELECTION; SEABIRD; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

ARGENTINA; CHUBUT; PUNTA LEON;

AVES; PHALACROCORACIDAE; PHALACROCORAX ATRICEPS;

EID: 79951739579     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.18387.x     Document Type: Article

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