Determining seabird body condition using nonlethal measures

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 85-95

  Jacobs, Shoshanah R ^a   Elliott, Kyle ^b   Guigueno, Mélanie F ^b   Gaston, Anthony J ^a,c   Redman, Paula ^d   Speakman, John R ^d   Weber, Jean Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPID;

BODY CONDITION; BODY MASS; BREEDING SEASON; DILUTION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; LIPID; LITERATURE REVIEW; OXYGEN; PLASMA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEABIRD;

ANIMAL; BLOOD; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY SIZE; CHARADRIIFORMES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY SIZE; CHARADRIIFORMES; FEMALE; LIPIDS; MALE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

AVES; FULMARUS GLACIALIS; LARIDAE; LARUS; PROCELLARIIDAE; RISSA TRIDACTYLA; URIA LOMVIA;

EID: 84855822096     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/663832     Document Type: Review

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