Are corticosterone levels a good indicator of food availability and reproductive performance in a kittiwake colony?

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Are corticosterone levels a good indicator of food availability and reproductive performance in a kittiwake colony?

By Richard Benjamin Lanctot

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Publish Date

2003

Publisher

EVOS Trustee Council

Language

eng

Pages

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Examines the use of corticosterone to gauge forage availability and predict reproductivity in black-legged kittiwakes breeding on Middleton Island in the Gulf of Alaska in 1999 and 2000.

subjects: Kittiwakes, Endocrinology, Reproduction, Endocrine aspects, Food, Corticosterone

Places: Alaska, Middleton Island