Weight loss during breeding is adaptive for female macaroni penguins, Eudyptes chrysolophus

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1053-1076

  Cresswell, Katherine A ^a,b   Tarling, Geraint A ^a   Tratham, Philip N ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Chick provisioning; Eudyptes chrysolophus; Euphausia superba; Fitness; Foraging; Predator; Prey; Stochastic dynamic programming; Variability

Indexed keywords

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUDYPTES CHRYSOLOPHUS; EUPHAUSIA SUPERBA; EUPHAUSIACEA; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 36448937033     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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