Incubation routine, duration of foraging trips and regulation of body mass in Short-tailed Shearwaters (Ardenna tenuirostris)

Emu

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 166-171

  Carey, Mark J ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

egg neglect; incubation costs; marine ecology; Procellariiformes; seabird ecology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BIOENERGETICS; BODY MASS; FASTING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INCUBATION; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MORTALITY; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEABIRD; TRADE-OFF;

AUSTRALIA; GREAT DOG ISLAND; TASMANIA;

ARDENNA; AVES; CANIS FAMILIARIS; PROCELLARIIDAE; PROCELLARIIFORMES;

EID: 79957830507     PISSN: 01584197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MU10043     Document Type: Article

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