Sexual size dimorphism, within-pair comparisons and assortative mating in the short-tailed shearwater (Puffinus tenuirostris)

Notornis

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 8-16

  Carey, Mark J ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assortative mating; Bill depth; Discriminant analysis; Morphometrics; Sexing; Shearwater

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ASSORTATIVE MATING; BIOMETRY; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; LINEARITY; MORPHOMETRY; SEABIRD; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SIZE STRUCTURE;

AVES; PROCELLARIIDAE; PUFFINUS TENUIROSTRIS;

EID: 84855221561     PISSN: 00294470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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