Characteristics of foraging habitats and chick food provisioning by tropical Roseate Terns

Condor

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 795-803

  Ramos, J A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE BRAGANÇA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Chick provisioning; Diet; Food shortage; Foraging ecology; Multispecies flocks; Roseate Tern; Sterna dougallii

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BREEDING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD; FORAGE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HABITAT; PREDATION; SEYCHELLES; STERNA DOUGALLII;

ANIMALIA; ANOUS TENUIROSTRIS; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; GYGIS ALBA; LARIDAE; MULLIDAE; MULLOIDICHTHYS; PARUPENEUS; STERNA DOUGALLII;

EID: 0033737691     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1370306     Document Type: Article

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