What shall I do now? State-dependent variations of life-history traits with aging in Wandering Albatrosses

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 474-487

  Pardo, Deborah ^a,b   Barbraud, Christophe ^a   Weimerskirch, Henri ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Birtish Antarctic Survey   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bienniality; Breeding probability and success; Capture mark recapture; Cost of reproduction; Diomedea exulans; Failure; Survival.

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894050684     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.882     Document Type: Article

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