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Life History Variation Of Common Terns In The Gulf Of Maine, Jeffery Bryant Kimmons
Life History Variation Of Common Terns In The Gulf Of Maine, Jeffery Bryant Kimmons
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Life history is the inheritable rules that determine energy and time allocation towards different competing functions in the energy budget of an organism. Reproductive effort varies as organisms make reproductive decisions based on available energy. Factors influencing life histories are those that change energy and time budgets such as diet, competition, and environmental conditions.
Common tern (Sterna hirundo) life history phenotypes vary between islands in the Gulf of Maine. Common terns on offshore islands (>10km from mainland) and nearshore islands (5 to 10km from mainland) lay smaller clutches, hatching chicks with slower growth rates than common terns …