Environmental Conditions during Breeding Modify the Strength of Mass-Dependent Carry-Over Effects in a Migratory Bird

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Harrison, Xavier A ^a,b   Hodgson, David J ^a   Inger, Richard ^a   Colhoun, Kendrew ^c   Gudmundsson, Gudmundur A ^d   McElwaine, Graham ^e   Tregenza, Tom ^a   Bearhop, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c WILDFOWL AND WETLANDS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d ICELANDIC INSTITUTE OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Iceland)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRANTA BERNICLA HROTA; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GOOSE; MASS DEPENDENT CARRY OVER EFFECT; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; PROGENY; REARING; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; WEATHER;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ANSERIFORMES; BODY SIZE; BREEDING; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS;

EID: 84885464948     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077783     Document Type: Article

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