The significance of female body stores for egg laying and incubation in Dark-bellied Brent Geese Branta bernicla bernicla

Ardea

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-15

  Spaans, Bernard ^a,d   Van't Hoff, Kees ^b   Van Der Veer, Willem ^c   Ebbinge, Barwolt S ^d  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b Microtes Wildlife Engineering   (Netherlands)

^c Alterra ^*  (Netherlands)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Body stores; Branta bernicla bernicla; Egg predation; Incubation energetics; Nest attentiveness

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BREEDING SEASON; BREEDING SITE; EGG PREDATION; HATCHING; INCUBATION; NEST; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; WATERFOWL;

EURASIA; KRASNOYARSK [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; PYASINA DELTA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; TAYMYR;

ANSER; BRANTA; BRANTA BERNICLA BERNICLA;

EID: 34347335507     PISSN: 03732266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5253/078.095.0102     Document Type: Article

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