Seasonality in daily body mass variation in a hoarding boreal passerine

Oecologia

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 627-633

  Broggi, Juli ^a   Koivula, Kari ^a   Lahti, Kimmo ^a   Orell, Markku ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Energy management; Hypothermia; Parus montanus; Willow tit; Winter fattening

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BOREAL FOREST; PASSERINE; SEASONALITY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY CONSTITUTION; COLD; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HYPOTHERMIA; MALE; METABOLISM; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SONGBIRD;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY CONSTITUTION; COLD; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; HYPOTHERMIA; MALE; PERIODICITY; SEASONS; SONGBIRDS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PARUS; PARUS MONTANUS; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; SALIX;

EID: 0345099441     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-003-1355-8     Document Type: Article

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