Parental provisioning, nestling departure decisions and prefledging mass recession in Cassin's auklets

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 873-881

  Morbey, Yolanda E ^a   Ydenberg, Ronald C ^a   Knechtel, Hugh A ^a   Harfenist, Anne ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; FLEDGING; NESTLING; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PROVISIONING;

PTYCHORAMPHUS ALEUTICUS;

EID: 0033118166     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.1039     Document Type: Article

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