Factors affecting individual variation in nestdefense intensity in colonially breeding Blacktailed Gulls (Larus crassirostris)

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 89, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 938-944

  Kazama, Kentaro ^a,b   Niizuma, Yasuaki ^b   Sakamoto, Kentaro Q ^c   Watanuki, Yutaka ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MEIJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUTCH SIZE; COLONIAL BREEDING; DEFENSE MECHANISM; INCUBATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SEABIRD; TESTOSTERONE;

AVES; CORVUS MACRORHYNCHOS; LARUS CRASSIROSTRIS;

EID: 80055064183     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: 14803283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/z11-063     Document Type: Article

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