Predation risk and reproductive effort: impacts of moonlight on food provisioning and chick growth in Manx shearwaters

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1743-1748

  Riou, Samuel ^a   Hamer, Keith C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

breeder; Manx shearwater; moonlight; parent offspring conflict; parental care; Puffinus puffinus; risk taking

Indexed keywords

FOOD PROVISIONING; LIGHT EFFECT; MOON; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; PARENTAL CARE; PREDATION RISK; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL; SEABIRD; SURVIVAL;

AVES; PUFFINUS PUFFINUS;

EID: 53549100451     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.08.012     Document Type: Article

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