Fitness Consequences of Timing of Migration and Breeding in Cormorants

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Gienapp, Phillip ^a,c   Bregnballe, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; BREEDING SUCCESS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FLEDGLING; MALE; MIGRATION; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PHALACROCORAX CARBO; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREY SELECTION; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; TIME; WATER BIRD; WINTER;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; BREEDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; DENMARK; REPRODUCTION;

AVES; PHALACROCORACIDAE; PHALACROCORAX CARBO;

EID: 84866657168     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046165     Document Type: Article

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