Age, sex, and breeding status shape a complex foraging pattern in an extremely long-lived seabird

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2324-2333

  Jaeger, Audrey ^a   Goutte, Aurélie ^a   Lecomte, Vincent J ^a   Richard, Pierre ^b   Chastel, Olivier ^a   Barbraud, Christophe ^a   Weimerskirch, Henri ^a   Cherel, Yves ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Breeding; Capture recapture models; Crozet Archipelago; Diomedea exulans; Foraging behavior; Inter Nesting; Senescence; Stable isotopes; Wandering Albatross

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN;

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; FEATHER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; WATERFOWL;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANSERIFORMES; CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPES; FEATHERS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; REPRODUCTION; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84905667043     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-1376.1     Document Type: Article

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