Differences in egg size, shell thickness, pore density, pore diameter and water vapour conductance between first and second eggs of Snares Penguins Eudyptes robustus and their influence on hatching asynchrony

Ibis

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 251-258

  Massaro, Melanie ^a,b   Davis, Lloyd S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EGG DEVELOPMENT; EGG SIZE; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; HATCHING; METABOLISM; SEABIRD; SHELL;

AVES; EUDYPTES; EUDYPTES ROBUSTUS; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 17444419764     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.2005.00379.x     Document Type: Article

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