The breeding biology and factors affecting reproductive success in rockhopper penguins Eudyptes chrysocome at Macquarie Island

Polar Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 711-720

  Hull, Cindy L ^a,b   Hindell, Mark ^a   Le Mar, Kirsten ^a   Scofield, Paul ^a   Wilson, Jane ^a   Lea, Mary Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b Environmental Services   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; GROWTH RATE; MORPHOMETRY; PREDATION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEABIRD;

MACQUARIE ISLAND; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

CATHARACTA; CATHARACTA SKUA; EUDYPTES; EUDYPTES CHRYSOCOME; GALLUS GALLUS; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 8744250424     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-004-0643-z     Document Type: Article

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