Variations in growth of Cape petrel Daption capense chicks

• Published in: Journal of Zoology
• Main Author: Weidinger, Karel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1997
• Subjects: Animal Science and Zoology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Nelson Island; South Shetland Islands; Antarc*; Antarctica; Cape Petrel; Daption capense
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1997.tb02940.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1469-7998.1997.tb02940.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1997.tb02940.x; https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1997.tb02940.x

This study reports on the growth of Cape petrel chicks at Nelson Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, during the breeding seasons 1990/91 and 1991/92. Parameters of logistic growth model fitted to mass, wing, culmen and tarsus measurements were compared between available composite data sets....