Foot-mediated incubation: Nazca booby (Sula granti) feet as surrogate brood patches

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 360-366

  Morgan, Stephanie M ^a   Ashley Ross, Miriam A ^a   Anderson, David J ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT TRANSFER; INCUBATION; SEABIRD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; FEMALE; FOOT; HEAT; MALE; NESTING; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; FEMALE; FOOT; HEAT; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; OVUM; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; SULA; SULA GRANTI; SULIDAE;

EID: 0043195432     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/375430     Document Type: Article

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