Exploring individual quality: basal metabolic rate and reproductive performance in storm-petrels
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Alexis L. Blackmer, Robert A. Mauck, Joshua T. Ackerman, Charles E. Huntington, Gabrielle A. Nevitt, and Joseph B. Williams Department of Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA, Biology Department, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH 43022, USA, Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA, Department of Biology, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME 04011, USA, and Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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