Ecology and energetics of breeding Puffins (Fractercula artica) : variations in individual reproductive effort and success

• Main Author: Wernham, C.V.
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Stirling 1993
• Subjects: Atlantic puffin May; Isle of (Scotland); Puffins May; Bird populations May; Burrows; artica; Atlantic puffin; fratercula; Fratercula arctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1893/29385; http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/29385/1/Wernham.pdf

This study investigated reproductive effort and success of individual Atlantic Puffins (Fratercula arctica) on the Isle of May, Firth of Forth, Scotland. It placed particular emphasis on the role of body condition in breeding. An energetics approach was taken, where individual ’quality’ was consider...