Reproductive consequences of environment-driven variation in Adélie penguin breeding phenology

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 440, Issue , 2011, Pages 203-216

  Emmerson, Louise ^a   Pike, Rhonda ^a   Southwell, Colin ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ad lie penguins; Breeding phenology; Breeding success; Colony latitude; Environmental influences

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; BREEDING SEASON; COLONY STRUCTURE; DATE (TIME); ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; LATITUDE; PHENOLOGY; RANGE SIZE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEABIRD; SURVIVAL; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS; YOUNG POPULATION;

ANTARCTICA; BECHERVAISE ISLAND; EAST ANTARCTICA;

PYGOSCELIS ADELIAE; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 80055073373     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09265     Document Type: Article

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