Ocean climate prior to breeding affects the duration of the nestling period in the Atlantic puffin

Biology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 628-631

  Durant, Joël M ^a   Anker Nilssen, Tycho ^b   Stenseth, Nils Chr ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Chick survival; Fratercula arctica; Herring; Ocean climate; Plankton

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; NESTLING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEABIRD;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BREEDING; CHICK; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; NESTLING; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEABIRD; SPRING; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

CLUPEA HARENGUS; CLUPEIDAE; FRATERCULA ARCTICA;

EID: 33845654480     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0520     Document Type: Article

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