Can artificial brood reduction assist the conservation of yellow-eyed penguins (Megadyptes antipodes)?

Animal Conservation

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 263-271

  Efford, Murray G ^a   Edge, Kerri Anne ^b,c  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALLUS GALLUS; MEGADYPTES ANTIPODES; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 0005108829     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1367943098000249     Document Type: Article

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