Thermoregulation and the energetic significance of clustering behavior in the white-backed mousebird (Colius colius)

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 238-249

  McKechnie, A E ^a   Lovegrove, B G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATAL PIETERMARITZBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; BEHAVIOR; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BIRD; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ECOLOGY; ENERGY METABOLISM; EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; BIRDS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ECOLOGY; ENERGY METABOLISM; EVOLUTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLIUS COLIUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035070521     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/319669     Document Type: Article

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