Why huddle? Ecological drivers of chick aggregations in gentoo penguins, Pygoscelis papua, across latitudes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Black, Caitlin ^a   Collen, Ben ^b   Johnston, Daniel ^c   Hart, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c King Edward Point Research Station   (Georgia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTARCTICA; CHEMICAL BINDING; CHICK; COLD STRESS; DRIVER; FEMALE; LATITUDE; NONHUMAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PENGUIN; SEABIRD; SOUTH GEORGIA AND THE SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS; SPECIES; ADAPTATION; AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; COLD; ECOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; THERMOREGULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGING; ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; COLD TEMPERATURE; ECOLOGY; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 84958999154     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145676     Document Type: Article

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