Population and Colony-Level Determinants of Tertiary Sex Ratio in the Declining Barn Swallow

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Saino, Nicola ^a   Romano, Maria ^a   Rubolini, Diego ^a   Caprioli, Manuela ^a   Ambrosini, Roberto ^b   Boncoraglio, Giuseppe ^a   Canova, Luca ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREEDING; FEMALE; HIRUNDO RUSTICA; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEX RATIO; SPERM COMPETITION; SURVIVAL RATE; SWALLOW (BIRD); YEARLING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SEX FACTORS; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL MATURATION; SWALLOWS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84873935556     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056493     Document Type: Article

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