From recruitment to senescence: Food shapes the age-dependent pattern of breeding performance in a long-lived bird

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 446-457

  Oro, Daniel ^a   Hernández, Noelia ^a   Jover, Lluis ^b   Genovart, Meritxell ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Age pattern; Audouin's Gull; Breeding performance; Ebro Delta; Food availability; Larus audouinii; Long lived birds; Selection hypothesis; Variance analysis; Western Mediterranean

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD SUPPLY; LAYING DATE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SEABIRD; SENESCENCE; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

CATALONIA; EBRO DELTA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (WEST); SPAIN; TARRAGONA [CATALONIA];

AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CHARADRIIFORMES; CLUTCH SIZE; EGG LAYING; LONGEVITY; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

AGING; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; CHARADRIIFORMES; CLUTCH SIZE; LONGEVITY; NESTING BEHAVIOR; OVIPOSITION; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84897988306     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-0331.1     Document Type: Article

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