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...
Published in: | The Auk |
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Oxford University Press (OUP)
1987
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/auk/104.4.750 http://academic.oup.com/auk/article-pdf/104/4/750/30081656/auk0750.pdf |