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The Young, the Weak and the Sick: Evidence of Natural Selection by Predation
It is assumed that predators mainly prey on substandard individuals, but even though some studies partially support this idea, evidence with large sample sizes, exhaustive analysis of prey and robust analysis is lacking. We gathered data from a culling program of yellow-legged gulls killed by two me...
Autores principales: | Genovart, Meritxell, Negre, Nieves, Tavecchia, Giacomo, Bistuer, Ana, Parpal, Luís, Oro, Daniel |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2010
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2841644/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20333305 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0009774 |
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