Response of Adult Leach's Storm-Petrels to Increased Food Demand at the Nest

Abstract In a colony of Leach's Storm-Petrels (Oceanodroma leucorhoa) on Kent Island, New Brunswick, i chicks were rotated on a daily basis through n nests to produce i/n chick-equivalents of food requirement, increasing by small increments from 1 (i = 6, n = 6) to 2 (i = 2, n = 1), between age...

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Published in:The Auk
Main Author: Ricklefs, Robert E.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 1987
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/auk/104.4.750
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