Male biased parasitism in cormorants and relationships with foraging ecology on Lake Erie, Canada

Waterbirds

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 307-313

  Robinson, Stacey A ^a   Forbes, Mark R ^a   Hebert, Craig E ^a   McLauglin, J Daniel ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbon isotope; Contracaecum spp.; Double crested Cormorant; Drepanocephalus spathans; foraging ecology; Lake Erie; male bias; nitrogen isotope

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BODY SIZE; CARBON ISOTOPE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INVERTEBRATE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PARASITISM; SEABIRD;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE ERIE;

AVES; CONTRACAECUM; DREPANOCEPHALUS SPATHANS; MAMMALIA; PHALACROCORACIDAE; PHALACROCORAX AURITUS; TREMATODA;

EID: 77957355131     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/063.033.0306     Document Type: Article

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