Egg production in a coastal seabird, the glaucous-winged gull (larus glaucescens), declines during the last century

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Blight, Louise K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; EGG PRODUCTION; EGG SIZE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD WEB; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHY; LARUS GLAUCESCENS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SEABIRD; SEASHORE; ANIMAL; CELL SIZE; CHARADRIIFORMES; CLUTCH SIZE; CYTOLOGY; FORELIMB; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; HISTORY; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME;

AVES; LARUS GLAUCESCENS;

SEA WATER;

ANIMALS; CELL SIZE; CHARADRIIFORMES; CLUTCH SIZE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; OVUM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEAWATER; TIME FACTORS; WING;

EID: 79960587075     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022027     Document Type: Article

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