Seasonality of reproduction in a neotropical rain forest bird

Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 2458-2472

  Wikelski, Martin ^a,b,c   Hau, Michaela ^a,b,c   Wingfield, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental cues; Food supply; Gonad growth; Hormonal changes; Hylophylax n. naevioides; Photoperiod; Predictability of tropical seasons; Rain forest; Rainfall; Seasonal reproduction; Spotted Antbird; Tropics

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; RAINFOREST; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SEASONALITY;

PANAMA;

AVES; HYLOPHYLAX; HYLOPHYLAX NAEVIOIDES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033863468     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[2458:SORIAN]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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