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Maternal investment in eggs: sources of variation and effects on offspring in wild rockhopper penguins.

The central aim of this postdoc research project is to examine the sources of variation in maternal investment in eggs of rockhopper penguins (Eudyptes chrysocome) and potential effects of such investment on embryonic survival an development. We will study this variation at all possible levels: within the breeding population (i.e. among clutches), within clutches and among breeding seasons and different population.
Date:1 Oct 2009 →  30 Sep 2013
Keywords:BEHAVIOURAL ENDOCRINOLOGY, PENGUINS
Disciplines:Animal biology, Endocrinology and metabolic diseases, Veterinary medicine
Project type:Collaboration project