Exploring individual quality: Basal metabolic rate and reproductive performance in storm-petrels

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 906-913

  Blackmer, Alexis L ^a,e   Mauck, Robert A ^b   Ackerman, Joshua T ^a   Huntington, Charles E ^c   Nevitt, Gabrielle A ^a   Williams, Joseph B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KENYON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c BOWDOIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Sacramento City College   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal metabolic rate; Compensation hypothesis; Individual quality; Leach's storm petrel; Oceanodroma leucorhoa; Reproductive performance

Indexed keywords

GROWTH RATE; HATCHING; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SEABIRD;

CANADA; NEW BRUNSWICK; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ANIMALIA; HYDROBATINAE; OCEANODROMA LEUCORHOA;

EID: 23944466672     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/ari069     Document Type: Article

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