Celestial moderation of tropical seabird behavior

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Pinet, Patrick ^a   Jaeger, Audrey ^a   Cordier, Emmanuel ^a   Potin, Gaël ^a   Le Corre, Matthieu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA RÉUNION   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MOON; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEABIRD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSOR; TROPICS; ANIMAL; BIRD; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; SEA;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; BREEDING; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MOON; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHOTOPERIOD;

EID: 81055124821     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027663     Document Type: Article

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