Modulating the corticosterone stress response: A mechanism for balancing individual risk and reproductive success in arctic-breeding sparrows?

Auk

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1140-1150

  Holberton, Rebecca L ^a,b   Wingfield, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; STRESS;

PASSER MONTANUS; PASSERCULUS SANDWICHENSIS; PASSERIDAE; PASSERIFORMES; SPIZELLA ARBOREA; VERTEBRATA; ZONOTRICHIA; ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRYS; ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRYS GAMBELII;

EID: 0242485213     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4090284     Document Type: Article

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