Long-term unpredictable foraging conditions and physiological stress response in mountain chickadees (Poecile gambeli)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 324-331

  Pravosudov, Vladimir V ^a   Kitaysky, Alexander S ^b   Wingfield, John C ^b   Clayton, Nicola S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Food caching birds; Mountain chickadee; Stress response; Unpredictable food

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASON; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRESS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; WINTER;

POECILE GAMBELI;

EID: 0034841058     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.2001.7684     Document Type: Article

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