Impacts of predators: Center nests are less successful than edge nests in a large nesting colony of Least Terns

Condor

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 372-380

  Brunton, Dianne H ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Black crowned Night Herons; colonial breeding; Least Terns; nest and chick mortality; predation; selfish herd

Indexed keywords

ARDEIDAE; CORVIDAE; CORVUS; CORVUS BRACHYRHYNCHOS; GALLUS GALLUS; LARIDAE; NYCTICORAX NYCTICORAX; STERNA ANTILLARUM;

EID: 0030988818     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369943     Document Type: Article

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