Photoperiodic responsiveness of equatorial and temperate-zone stonechats

Condor

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 347-359

  Gwinner, Eberhard ^a   Scheuerlein, Alexander ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Circannual rhythms; Photoperiodic responsiveness; Refractoriness; Saxicola torquata; Stonechats; Tropical birds

Indexed keywords

AVES; SAXICOLA TORQUATA; SAXICOLA TORQUATA AXILLARIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032964956     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369998     Document Type: Article

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