Can Foraging Ecology Drive the Evolution of Body Size in a Diving Endotherm?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Cook, Timothée R ^a,b   Lescroël, Amélie ^b   Cherel, Yves ^b   Kato, Akiko ^b,c,d   Bost, Charles André ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIRD; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVING; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FEMALE; FORAGING; GENDER BIAS; MALE; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PENGUIN; PHALACROCORAX VERRUCOSIS; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PYGOSCELIS PAPUA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIES COMPARISON;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; DIET; DIVING; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EYE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPHENISCIDAE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84873604845     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056297     Document Type: Article

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