Different means to the same end: Long-distance migrant seabirds from two colonies differ in behaviour, despite common wintering grounds

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Catry, Paulo ^a,b   Dias, Maria P ^a,b   Phillips, Richard A ^c   Granadeiro, José P ^b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE PSICOLOGIA APLICADA   (Portugal)

^b Museu Nacional de Historia Natural Universidade de Lisboa   (Portugal)

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; AUTUMN; BIOENERGY; BREEDING; CALONECTRIS DIOMEDEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FEATHER; MIGRANT BIRD; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; ORGANISM COLONY; SEABIRD; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WINTER; ANIMAL; CHARADRIIFORMES; GEOGRAPHY; ISOTOPE LABELING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; PORTUGAL; SEASON; SPAIN; TIME;

AVES; CALONECTRIS DIOMEDEA; PROCELLARIIDAE;

SEA WATER;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BREEDING; CHARADRIIFORMES; GEOGRAPHY; ISOTOPE LABELING; PORTUGAL; SEASONS; SEAWATER; SPAIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80053974160     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026079     Document Type: Article

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