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Provisioning, growth and survival of Adélie penguin chicks at Cape Crozier, Ross Island, Antarctica

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Jennings, Scott

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Understanding the factors that contribute to or limit reproductive success is a fundamental objective of the field of ecology, providing insight into the ways ecosystems function and facilitating better management of natural resources. Behaviors that benefit offspring often increase costs to parents, and thus parents must adjust their level of...

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Masters Thesis
Differences in Adélie Penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) Chick Growth Rates and Diet

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Jennings, Scott, Varsani, Arvind, Dugger, Katie M., Ballard, Grant, and Ainley, David G.

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Sexually size-dimorphic species must show some difference between the sexes in growth rate and/or length of growing period. Such differences in growth parameters can cause the sexes to be impacted by environmental variability in different ways, and understanding these differences allows a better understanding of patterns in productivity between individuals...

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Article

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molecular sexing. We also thank Donald Lyons and Lorenzo Ciannelli for valuable discussions that helped