Integrating stress physiology, environmental change, and behavior in free-living sparrows

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 115-123

  Breuner, Creagh W ^a   Hahn, Thomas P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body condition; Facultative altitudinal migration; Fat score; Glucocorticoids; Inclement weather; Stress; White crowned sparrow

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY CONSTITUTION; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC ELEVATION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RESPONSE; MALE; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; TERRITORIALITY; UNITED STATES; WEATHER;

EID: 0037218036     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0018-506X(02)00020-X     Document Type: Article

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