Slow pace of life in tropical sedentary birds: A common-garden experiment on four stonechat populations from different latitudes

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1531, 2003, Pages 2383-2388

  Wikelski, Martin ^a   Spinney, Laura ^a   Schelsky, Wendy ^b   Scheuerlein, Alexander ^c   Gwinner, Eberhard ^d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Life history; Pace of life; Resting metabolic rate; Stonechat; Tropical birds

Indexed keywords

ENERGY USE; GARDEN; LATITUDE; METABOLISM;

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BIRD; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GERMANY; KAZAKHSTAN; KENYA; METABOLIC ACTIVATION; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAXICOLA TORQUATA; TROPICS;

AVES; SAXICOLA; SAXICOLA TORQUATA;

EID: 0344441387     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2500     Document Type: Article

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