Family size and sex-specific parental effort in black-legged kittiwakes

Behaviour

Volumn 147, Issue 13-14, 2010, Pages 1841-1862

  Leclaire, Sarah ^a,b,c   Helfenstein, Fabrice ^d   Degeorges, Anne ^a,b   Wagner, Richard H ^c   Danchin, Étienne ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

black legged kittiwakes; brood reduction; clutch reduction; feeding rate; parental effort; Rissa tridactyla

Indexed keywords

AVES; RISSA TRIDACTYLA;

EID: 78649552475     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/000579510X538872     Document Type: Article

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