Social Status, Circulating Levels of Hormones, and Competition for Food in Winter Flocks of the White-Throated Sparrow

Behaviour

Volumn 107, Issue 1-2, 1988, Pages 107-121

  Schwabl, Hubert ^a   Schwabl Benzinger, Ingrid ^a   Ramenofsky, Marilyn ^b,c   Farner, Donald S ^b,c   Wingfield, John C ^b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; DOMINANCE HIERARCHY; FLOCKING; WHITE-THROATED SPARROW;

ZONOTRICHIA ALBICOLLIS;

EID: 0024187936     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853988X00223     Document Type: Article

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