Are common terns really indeterminate layers? Responses to experimental egg removal

Waterbirds

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 81-86

  Arnold, Jennifer M ^a   Nisbet, Ian C T ^b   Hatch, Jeremy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b I C T Nisbet and Company Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Clutch size; Common Tern; Desertion; Egg removal; Laying pattern; Sterna hirundo

Indexed keywords

CLUTCH SIZE; COMMON TERN; EGG REMOVAL;

STERNA HIRUNDO;

EID: 0031714016     PISSN: 07386028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1521735     Document Type: Article

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