Associations between first encounters and ensuing social relations within dyads of two species of lacertid lizards

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 938-945

  Downes, Sharon ^a,b   Bauwens, Dirk ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

First interactions; Growth; Social relations; Thermal habitat use

Indexed keywords

GROWTH RATE; HABITAT USE; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; LIZARD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; LACERTIDAE; PODARCIS; PODARCIS MELISELLENSIS; PODARCIS SICULA; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 8144222772     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arh090     Document Type: Article

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