Yelkouan shearwater Puffinus yelkouan presence and behaviour at colonies: not only a moonlight question

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 331, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 88-97

  Bourgeois, Karen ^a   Dromzée, Sylvain ^b   Vidal, Éric ^a   Legrand, Jérôme ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Activity pattern; Behaviour; Breeding; Environmental factors; Moonlight intensity; Puffinus yelkouan; Seabird

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL FACTOR;

ACTIVITY PATTERN; BREEDING SITE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; PREDATION RISK; REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE; SEABIRD; SEX RATIO;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MOON; NONHUMAN; PETREL; PREDATION; PUFFINUS YELKOUAN; SEXUALITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; BREEDING; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FRANCE; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS; MOON; OVIPOSITION; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TIME FACTORS;

AVES; PROCELLARIIDAE; PUFFINUS YELKOUAN;

EID: 37749036432     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2007.10.008     Document Type: Article

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