Causes and consequences of egg loss in rockhopper penguins, Eudyptes chrysocome

Oikos

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 459-466

  St Clair, Colleen Cassady ^a,b   St Clair, Robert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUDYPTES CHRYSOCOME; CATHARACTA SKUA;

EGG LOSS; EGG PREDATION; ROCKHOPPER PENGUIN; SKUA;

EID: 0030303313     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3545935     Document Type: Article

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