Flexible Growth Rates in Fork-Tailed Storm-Petrels: A Response to Environmental Variability
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Auk
- Vol. 115 (1) , 67-75
- https://doi.org/10.2307/4089112
Abstract
We examined the degree that growth in Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel (Oceanodroma furcata) chicks varies among individuals and years. Data on wing chord lenKeywords
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