Food provisioning to nestling shearwaters: Why parental behaviour should be monitored?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 663-671

  Granadeiro, José P ^a,b   Burns, Martin D ^b,c   Furness, Robert W ^b,c  

^a Instituto da Conservacao da Natureza   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARENTAL CARE; SEABIRD; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CALONECTRIS DIOMEDEA; CICONIIFORMES; DIOMEDEA; GALLUS GALLUS; PROCELLARIIFORMES;

EID: 0033104528     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0992     Document Type: Article

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