Foraging closer to the colony leads to faster growth in little auks

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 489, Issue , 2013, Pages 263-278

  Jakubas, Dariusz ^a   Trudnowska, Emilia ^b   Wojczulanis Jakubas, Katarzyna ^a   Iliszko, Lech ^a   Kidawa, Dorota ^a   Darecki, Mirosław ^b   Błachowiak Samołyk, Katarzyna ^b   Stempniewicz, Lech ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Breeding success; Calanus glacialis; Chick growth; Foraging range; Parental efforts; Spitsbergen; Zooplanktivorous alcid; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BODY MASS; CLIMATE EFFECT; FEEDING GROUND; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GPS; GROWTH RATE; HATCHING; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PLANKTIVORY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEABIRD; SURVIVAL; ZOOPLANKTON;

ARCTIC; HORNSUND; MAGDALENEFJORDEN; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 84883418499     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps10414     Document Type: Article

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