Gentlemen first? 'Broken stick' modelling reveals sex-related homing decision date in migrating seabirds

Journal of Zoology

Volumn 292, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 25-30

  Thiebot, J B ^a   Authier, M ^a   Trathan, P N ^b   Bost, C A ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activity schedule; Bayesian statistics; Eudyptes penguins; Gender specific constraints; Light based geolocation; Migration; Pre breeding period; Winter

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; DECISION MAKING; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MIGRATORY POPULATION; MOVEMENT; SEABIRD; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRACKING;

ANIMALIA; EUDYPTES; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 84890801019     PISSN: 09528369     EISSN: 14697998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jzo.12080     Document Type: Article

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