Seasonal and diurnal body-mass fluctuations for two nonhoarding species of Parus in Sweden modeled using path analysis

Auk

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 658-668

  Rintamäki, Pekka T ^a   Stone, Jon R ^a,b,c   Lundberg, Arne ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BODY MASS; DIURNAL VARIATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PATH ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION;

AVES; PARUS; PARUS CAERULEUS; PARUS MAJOR; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0041923991     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/auk/120.3.658     Document Type: Article

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