Chick provisioning by the Yellow-nosed Albatross diomedea chlororhynchos: Response of foraging effort to experimentally increased costs and demands

Ibis

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 103-110

  Weimerskirch, Henri ^a   Prince, Peter A ^b   Zimmermann, Laurent ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD PROVISIONING; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEABIRD;

DIOMEDEA CHLORORHYNCHOS;

EID: 0033962493     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.2000.tb07689.x     Document Type: Article

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