Pair duration, breeding success and divorce in a long-lived seabird: benefits of mate familiarity?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 433-444

  Naves, Liliana C ^a   Cam, Emmanuelle ^b   Monnat, Jean Yves ^c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c Penn ar Run Izella ^*  (France)

Author keywords

breeding performance; divorce; individual quality; kittiwake; life history traits; mate familiarity; pair bond duration; prior residence; Rissa tridactyla; seabird

Indexed keywords

DIVORCE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MATE FIDELITY; MATE RECOGNITION; PAIR BOND; PRIOR RESIDENCE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEABIRD; SITE FIDELITY;

AVES; RISSA TRIDACTYLA;

EID: 33847795363     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.10.004     Document Type: Article

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