Why breed every other year? The case of albatrosses

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1503, 2002, Pages 1955-1961

  Jouventin, Pierre ^a   Dobson, F Stephen ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Albatrosses; Biennial breeding; Life histories; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; FECUNDITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEABIRD; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BREEDING; CHICKEN; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; LIFE HISTORY; MALE; MATURATION; NONHUMAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REARING; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL RATE; AGE; AGING; ANIMAL; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CICONIIFORMES; GALLUS GALLUS; VERTEBRATA;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; BIRDS; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037159049     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2080     Document Type: Article

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