Productivity of White-tailed Tropicbird on Aride Island, Seychelles

Waterbirds

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 405-410

  Ramos, Jaime A ^a   Bowler, John ^b,d   Betts, Michael ^b,e   Pacheco, Carlos ^a   Agombar, Jamie ^b   Bullock, Ian ^b,e   Monticelli, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b Aride Island Nature Reserve   (Seychelles)

^c ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^d RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Asynchronous breeding; Breeding success; Phaethon lepturus; Tropical seabirds; Variation in fecundity rates; White tailed Tropicbird

Indexed keywords

BREEDING; FECUNDITY; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; SEABIRD;

ARIDE ISLAND; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; SEYCHELLES;

ACARI; AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA LOCULOSUM; IXODIDAE; PHAETHON LEPTURUS;

EID: 33644853252     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/1524-4695(2005)28[405:POWTOA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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