A mechanistic link between chick diet and decline in seabirds?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1585, 2006, Pages 445-450

  Kitaysky, Alexander S ^a,c   Kitaiskaia, Evgenia V ^a,c   Piatt, John F ^b   Wingfield, John C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Cognition; Corticosterone; Kittiwake; Nutritional stress

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COGNITION; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FLEDGING; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GROWTH RATE; HORMONE; LIPID; MORTALITY; POPULATION DECLINE; POULTRY; RECRUITMENT; SEABIRD; VISUAL CUE;

ARTICLE; BREEDING; CHICK; CLIMATE CHANGE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DIET RESTRICTION; DIETARY INTAKE; GROWTH RETARDATION; LIPID DIET; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEABIRD; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BLOOD; CALORIC INTAKE; CHARADRIIFORMES; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; FISH; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LEARNING; MEMORY; METABOLISM; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; PRIBILOF ISLANDS; UNITED STATES;

AVES; LARUS; RISSA BREVIROSTRIS;

CORTICOSTERONE; LIPID;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHARADRIIFORMES; CORTICOSTERONE; ENERGY INTAKE; FISHES; LEARNING; LIPIDS; MEMORY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS;

EID: 33645749819     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3351     Document Type: Article

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