Fruit-eating in birds and its nutritional consequences

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Physiology

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 215-224

  Bairlein, F ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

Author keywords

daily nitrogen needs; dietary shifts; frugivory; nutrients; secondary plant metabolites; Sylvia atricapilla; Sylvia borin; tannin

Indexed keywords

LIPID; PROTEIN; TANNIN;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; BIRD; BODY MASS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; INSECT; LIPID DIET; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DIET;

SYLVIA ATRICAPILLA; SYLVIA BORIN;

EID: 0030007571     PISSN: 03009629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0300-9629(95)02091-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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