Nestling obesity and variability of food delivery in Manx Shearwaters, Puffinus puffinus

Functional Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 489-497

  Hamer, K C ^a   Hill, J K ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Growth; Life history; Nutrition; Obesity; Procellariiformes

Indexed keywords

FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD DELIVERY; MANX SHEARWATER; NESTLING; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT;

CICONIIFORMES; GALLUS GALLUS; PROCELLARIIFORMES; PUFFINUS AURICULARIS; PUFFINUS PUFFINUS;

EID: 0030847314     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.1997.00118.x     Document Type: Article

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