Incubation patterns in a central-place forager affect lifetime reproductive success: Scaling of patterns from a foraging bout to a lifetime

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Shoji, Akiko ^a,b   Elliott, Kyle H ^c   Aris Brosou, Stéphane ^a   Crump, Doug ^b   Gaston, Anthony J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREEDING; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DIVE DEPTH; DIVE FREQUENCY; EGG SIZE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FORAGER; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INCUBATION TIME; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEABIRD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SWIMMING; SYNTHLIBORAMPHUS ANTIQUUS; TIDE; TIDE HEIGHT; WIND; WIND SPEED; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHARADRIIFORMES; DIVING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHY; NESTING; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TELEMETRY; TIME;

ALCIDAE; MURRELET SYNTHLIBORAMPHUS; SYNTHLIBORAMPHUS; SYNTHLIBORAMPHUS ANTIQUUS;

ANIMALS; CANADA; CHARADRIIFORMES; DIVING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NESTING BEHAVIOR; OVUM; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TELEMETRY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79952672339     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017760     Document Type: Article

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