Foraging effort in relation to the constraints of reproduction in free-ranging albatrosses

Functional Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 66-74

  Shaffer, S A ^a   Costa, D P ^a   Weimerskirch, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Energy expenditure; Wandering Albatrosses

Indexed keywords

ENERGY USE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION; SEABIRD;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CICONIIFORMES; DIOMEDEA; DIOMEDEA EXULANS; GALLUS GALLUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037298064     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.2003.00705.x     Document Type: Article

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