Two explanations of the dawn chorus compared: How monotonically changing light levels favour a short break from singing

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 527-539

  Hutchinson, John M C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; LIGHT; SONG;

AVES;

EID: 0036417246     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2002.3091     Document Type: Article

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