Evidence for an age-dependent influence of environmental variations on a long-lived seabird's life-history traits

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 208-220

  Pardo, Deborah ^a   Barbraud, Christophe ^a   Authier, Matthieu ^a   Weimerskirch, Henri ^a  

^a CENTRE D ETUDES BIOLOGIQUES DE CHIZÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Black browed albatross; Breeding probability; Breeding success; Capture mark recapture; Chick body condition; Fisheries bycatch; Kerguelen Islands; Sea surface temperature; Senescence; Southern oscillation index; Survival; Thalassarche melanophris

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION; BREEDING POPULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; GLOBAL CHANGE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; SEABIRD; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; WILD POPULATION;

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHARADRIIFORMES; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION;

AGING; ANIMALS; CHARADRIIFORMES; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION;

AVES; DIOMEDEA MELANOPHRIS;

EID: 84876143863     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-0215.1     Document Type: Article

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