Energy regulation by traplining hummingbirds

Functional Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 483-492

  Gass, C L ^a   Garrison, J S E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Energetics; Foraging behaviour; Hummingbirds; Phaethornis longirostris; Traplining

Indexed keywords

ENERGY USE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; MODEL TEST;

PHAETHORNIS LONGIROSTRIS;

EID: 0032822777     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.1999.00335.x     Document Type: Article

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