Year-round sexual harassment as a behavioral mediator of vertebrate population dynamics

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 351-366

  Wearmouth, Victoria J ^a   Southall, Emily J ^a   Morritt, David ^b   Thompson, Richard C ^c   Cuthill, Innes C ^d   Partridge, Julian C ^d   Sims, David W ^a,e  

^a THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavior; Dimorphism; Elasmobranch; Habitat and social segregation; Mammal; Scyliorhinus canicula; Sex; Sexual conflict; Shark; Small spotted catshark; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; BIOTELEMETRY; FECUNDITY; FISH; FITNESS; HABITAT USE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REFUGE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SHARK; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA; CHONDRICHTHYES; MAMMALIA; SCYLIORHINIDAE; SCYLIORHINUS CANICULA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84865743973     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-2052.1     Document Type: Article

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