Mechanical determinants of nectar feeding strategy in hummingbirds: energetics, tongue morphology, and licking behavior

Oecologia

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1983, Pages 214-226

  Kingsolver, Joel G ^a   Daniel, Thomas L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHILOCHUS; CALYPTE ANNA;

EID: 0020897687     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: 14321939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00379523     Document Type: Article

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