Recruitment of Cassin's Auklet (Ptychoramphus aleuticus): Individual age and parental age effects

Auk

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 124-132

  Lee, Derek E ^a,b   Warzybok, Peter M ^a   Bradley, Russell W ^a  

^a PRBO CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United States)

^b Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

Age of first breeding; Alcidae; Cassin's Auklet; Demography; Juvenile survival; Mark recapture; Multistrata; Parent quality; Ptychoramphus aleuticus

Indexed keywords

AGE AT RECRUITMENT; CAPTIVE BREEDING; CAPTURE METHOD; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; EGG PRODUCTION; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; PARENTAL CARE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEABIRD;

CALIFORNIA; FARALLON ISLANDS; UNITED STATES;

ALCIDAE; AVES; PTYCHORAMPHUS ALEUTICUS;

EID: 84863338197     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/auk.2012.10224     Document Type: Article

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