The use of a time and energy budget model of a parent bird to investigate limits to fledging mass in the Thick-billed Murre

Functional Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 432-439

  Houston, A I ^a   Thompson, W A ^c   Gaston, A J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Alcids; chick size; energy constraint; foraging range; time constraint

Indexed keywords

ENERGY BUDGET; TIME BUDGET;

URIA LOMVIA;

EID: 0030304585     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2389935     Document Type: Article

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