Camouflage and clutch survival in plovers and terns

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Stoddard, Mary Caswell ^a,b   Kupán, Krisztina ^c   Eyster, Harold N ^b   Rojas Abreu, Wendoly ^d   Cruz López, Medardo ^e   Serrano Meneses, Martín Alejandro ^d   Küpper, Clemens ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^d CENTRO TLAXCALA DE BIOLOGÍA DE LA CONDUCTA   (Mexico)

^e UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MODEL; NESTING; PREDATION; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SINALOA; SOFTWARE; SPECIES; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MIMICRY; CHARADRIIFORMES; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MIMICRY; CHARADRIIFORMES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84987789002     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep32059     Document Type: Article

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