The individual counts: Within sex differences in foraging strategies are as important as sex-specific differences in masked boobies Sula dactylatra

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 531-540

  Sommerfeld, Julia ^a,b   Kato, Akiko ^c   Ropert Coudert, Yan ^c   Garthe, Stefan ^a,b   Hindell, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; BODY CONDITION; BODY MASS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MOVEMENT; POULTRY; SEABIRD;

ANIMALIA; SULA DACTYLATRA;

EID: 84888136971     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: 1600048X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2013.00135.x     Document Type: Article

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