TECHNIQUES FOR INVESTIGATING BREEDING CHRONOLOGY IN MARBLED MURRELETS, DESOLATION SOUND, BRITISH COLUMBIA.

Presents a study that applied several techniques to examine the chronology and synchrony of breeding events of the marbled murrelet population at Desolation Sound, British Columbia. Estimation of the duration of breeding by marbled murrelets; Comparison of several methods to estimate breeding chronology; Examination of the interannual variability of the breeding behavior of marbled murrelets; Analysis of the breeding synchrony of marbled murrelets.