Seabird reproductive physiology and energetics

Biology of Marine Birds

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 409-437

  Whittow, G Causey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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142. WHITTOW, G. C. 1994. Incubation biology and nestling growth of Bulwer’s Petrels on Manana Island, Oahu, Hawaii. Pacific Science 48: 136-144.
143. WHITTOW, G. C. 1997. Wedge-tailed Shearwater Puffinus pacificus. No. 305 in The Birds of North America (A. Poole and F. Gill, Eds.). Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia; American Ornithologists’ Union, Washington, D.C.
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145. WHITTOW, G. C., AND M. B. NAUGHTON. 1999. Christmas Shearwater egg dimensions and shell characteristics on Laysan Island, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Wilson Bulletin 111: 421-422.
146. WHITTOW, G. C., AND T. N. PETTIT. 2000. Egg dimensions and shell characteristics of Bulwer’s Petrels, Bulweria bulwerii, on Laysan Island, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Pacific Science 54: 183-188.
147. WHITTOW, G. C., AND H. TAZAWA. 1991. The early development of temperature regulation in birds. Physiological Zoology 64: 1371-1390.
148. WHITTOW, G. C., AND C. S. K. WHITTOW. 1988. Pipping in the eggs of the Red-footed Booby (Sula sula) Elepaio 48: 45-46.
149. WHITTOW, G. C., R. A. ACKERMAN, C. V. PAGANELLI, AND T. N. PETTIT. 1982. Pre-pipping water loss from the eggs of the Wedge-tailed Shearwater. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 72A: 29-34.
150. WHITTOW, G. C., G. S. GRANT, AND E. N. FLINT. 1985. Egg water loss, shell water-vapor conductance, and the incubation period of the Gray-backed Tern (Sterna lunata). Condor 87: 269-272.
151. WHITTOW, G. C., T. N. PETTIT, R. A. ACKERMAN, AND C. V. PAGANELLI. 1987. Temperature regulation in a burrow-nesting tropical seabird, the wedge-tailed shearwater (Puffinus pacificus). Journal of Comparative Physiology B 157: 607-614.
152. WHITTOW, G. C., T. N. PETTIT, R. A. ACKERMAN, AND C. V. PAGANELLI. 1989. The regulation of water loss from the eggs of the Red-footed Booby (Sula sula). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 93A: 807-810.
153. WHITTOW, G. C., T. R. SIMONS, AND T. N. PETTIT. 1984. Water loss from the eggs of a tropical seabird (Pterodroma phaeopygia) at high altitude. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 78A: 537-540.
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160. ZHANG, Q., AND G. C. WHITTOW. 1992. Embryonic oxygen consumption and organ growth in the Wedgetailed Shearwater. Growth, Development and Aging 56: 205-214.
161. ZHANG, Q., AND G. C. WHITTOW. 1993a. Oxygen consumption and organ growth in Sooty Tern (Sterna fuscata) embryos. Auk 110: 939-943.
162. ZHANG, Q., AND G. C. WHITTOW. 1993b. Organ growth and oxygen consumption in Laysan Albatross embryos. Wilson Bulletin 105: 657-665.