As the egg turns: Monitoring egg attendance behavior in wild birds using novel data logging technology

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Shaffer, Scott A ^a   Clatterbuck, Corey A ^a   Kelsey, Emma C ^a   Naiman, Alex D ^b   Young, Lindsay C ^c   VanderWerf, Eric A ^c   Warzybok, Pete ^d   Bradley, Russell ^d   Jahncke, Jaime ^d   Bower, Geoff C ^b  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial for Computational and Mathematical Engineering   (United States)

^c Pacific Rim Conservation   (United States)

^d PRBO CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; ARTICLE; AUTECOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BREEDING; CASSIN AUKLET; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA LOGGING TECHNOLOGY; EGG TURNING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LAYSAN ALBATROSS; MAGNETOMETER; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE ECOLOGY; SEABIRD; SPECIES COMPARISON; THERMISTOR; WESTERN GULL; WILD SPECIES; ACCELEROMETRY; ANIMAL; BIRD; MAGNETOMETRY; NESTING; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE; TIME; WILD ANIMAL;

ACCELEROMETRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BIRDS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; MAGNETOMETRY; NESTING BEHAVIOR; OVUM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84902354734     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097898     Document Type: Article

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