Food availability affects onset of reproduction in a long-lived seabird

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1760, 2013, Pages

  Vincenzi, Simone ^a,b   Hatch, Scott ^c   Mangel, Marc ^a,d   Kitaysky, Alexander ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MRAG Americas   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental stress; Predictive adaptive response; Productivity; Recruitment; Social rank

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AVIFAUNA; EUSOCIALITY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; GROWTH RATE; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEABIRD;

ALASKA; MIDDLETON ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84875992024     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.0554     Document Type: Article

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