Metabolic adaptation and climatic constraints on winter bird distribution

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 946-957

  Canterbury, Grant ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry, temperature; Basal metabolic rate; Christmas Bird Count; Cold tolerance; Independent contrasts; Passerine birds; Phenotypic acclimatization; Range boundaries; Winter climate, food limitation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALLOMETRY; COLD TOLERANCE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; METABOLISM; PASSERINE; RANGELAND; WINTER;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0005739291     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[0946:MAACCO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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