Effects of individual pre-fledging traits and environmental conditions on return patterns in juvenile king penguins.

Despite the importance of early life stages in individuals' life history and population dynamics, very few studies have focused on the constraints to which these juvenile traits are subjected. Based on 10 years of automatic monitoring of over 2500 individuals, we present the first study on the...

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Main Authors: Claire Saraux, Vincent A Viblanc, Nicolas Hanuise, Yvon Le Maho, Céline Le Bohec
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21687715/pdf/?tool=EBI