Costs of incubation in Common Terns Sterna hirundo: Replication and extension of a clutch-enlargement experiment

Ibis

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 185-189

  Hatch, Jeremy J ^a,c   Nisbet, Ian C T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b ICT Nisbet and Company   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Clutch size; Growth; Productivity

Indexed keywords

CLUTCH SIZE; GROWTH RATE; INCUBATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SEABIRD;

STERNA HIRUNDO;

EID: 78650087772     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2010.01076.x     Document Type: Article

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