One house two families: Petrel squatters get a sniff of low-cost breeding opportunities

Ethology

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 176-182

  Bonadonna, Francesco ^a   Mardon, Jérôme ^a,b  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURROWING; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; NESTING BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEABIRD; SYMPATRY;

FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES; KERGUELEN; KERGUELEN ISLANDS;

HALOBAENA CAERULEA; INVERTEBRATA; PACHYPTILA DESOLATA; PROCELLARIIDAE; PROCELLARIIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 73849140909     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2009.01725.x     Document Type: Article

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