Prospecting enhances breeding success of first-time breeders in the great cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 647-654

  Schjørring, Solveig ^a   Gregersen, Jens ^b,c   Bregnballe, Thomas ^b,c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Department of Inland Fisheries   (Denmark)

^c D   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SITE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEABIRD;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; PELECANIFORMES; PHALACROCORAX CARBO; PHALACROCORAX CARBO SINENSIS;

EID: 0033105590     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0993     Document Type: Article

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