Annual variation in fat storage by a migrant warbler overwintering in the Indian tropics

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 815-823

  Katti, Madhusudan ^a,b   Price, Trevor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diurnal variation; Energy reserves; Phylloscopus; Timing of moult; Winter survival strategies

Indexed keywords

FAT RESERVE; OVERWINTERING; PASSERINE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

INDIA;

PHYLLOSCOPUS TROCHILOIDES;

EID: 0032815170     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2656.1999.00331.x     Document Type: Article

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