Divorce and asynchronous arrival in common terns, Sterna hirundo

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1123-1129

  González Solís, Jacob ^a,b   Becker, Peter H ^a   Wendeln, Helmut ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; MONOGAMY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SYNCHRONY;

AVES; CHARADRIIFORMES; HIRUNDO; LARIDAE; STERNA HIRUNDO;

EID: 0342762714     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1235     Document Type: Article

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