Are adult nonbreeders prudent parents? The Kittiwake model

Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2917-2930

  Cam, Emmanuelle ^a,c   Hines, James E ^b   Monnat, Jean Yves ^c   Nichols, James D ^b   Danchin, Etienne ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

Author keywords

Intermittent breeding, multistate capture recapture models; Reproductive costs; Rissa tridactyla, survival probability

Indexed keywords

MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS; SEABIRD; SURVIVAL; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

RISSA TRIDACTYLA;

EID: 0032421989     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079[2917:AANPPT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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