Lipid reserves, fasting capability and the evolution of nestling obesity in procellariiform seabirds

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1426, 1999, Pages 1329-1334

  Phillips, R A ^a,b   Hamer, K C ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b WILDFOWL AND WETLANDS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fat stores; Mass recession; Post fledging survival

Indexed keywords

LIPID; WATER;

AGE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; DEVELOPMENT; DIET RESTRICTION; EVOLUTION; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPID STORAGE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REARING; TOTAL BODY WATER;

AVES; FULMARUS GLACIALIS; PROCELLARIIDAE; PROCELLARIIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033532969     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0783     Document Type: Article

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