Are corticosterone levels a good indicator of food availability and reproductive performance in a kittiwake colony?
By: Richard B. Lanctot ... [et al.].
Contributors: Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council
Publisher: EVOS Trustee Council
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Anchorage, Alaska
Language: eng
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: Kittiwakes; Endocrinology; Reproduction; Endocrine aspects; Food; Corticosterone
Other titles: Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Restoration Project final report
Description: 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.
Notes: Additional authors on t.p.: Scott A. Hatch, Verena A. Gill, Marcel Eens.

Authors at time of writing affiliated with U.S. Geological Survey, Alaska Science Center, Biological Sciences Office and Dept. of Biology, University of Antwerp.

"Restoration Project 01555."

"February 2003."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 15-17).

Final report.

Also available in electronic format via Internet.

Funded by Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council

This item was harvested from the Gulf of Alaska Ecosystem Monitoring Project web site:  http://www.gem.state.ak.us/Store/Final%5FReports/450.pdf in Jan. 2006 for the Alaska State Publications Program; remote access available via StaticURL.