Assessment Strategies and the Effects of Fighting Experience on Future Contest Performance in the Green Anole (Anolis carolinensis)

Ethology

Volumn 118, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 821-834

  Garcia, Mark J ^a,b   Paiva, Laura ^b   Lennox, Michelle ^b   Sivaraman, Boopathy ^a,b   Wong, Stephanie C ^a,b   Earley, Ryan L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ARRAY; ASSESSMENT METHOD; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FITNESS; LIZARD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

ANIMALIA; ANOLIS; ANOLIS CAROLINENSIS; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 84864323666     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2012.02072.x     Document Type: Article

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