The vigilance components of begging and sibling competition

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 359-368

  Dreiss, Amélie N ^a   Calcagno, Marco ^a   van den Brink, Valentijn ^a   Laurent, Aurélie ^b   Almasi, Bettina ^c   Jenni, Lukas ^c   Roulin, Alexandre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^c SWISS ORNITHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BEGGING BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; RAPTOR; SIBLING; VIGILANCE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; STRIGIFORMES; TYTO ALBA; TYTONIDAE;

EID: 84880045308     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: 1600048X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2013.00066.x     Document Type: Article

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