Balancing food and predator pressure induces chronic stress in songbirds

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1556, 2004, Pages 2473-2479

  Clinchy, Michael ^a   Zanette, Liana ^a   Boonstra, Rudy ^b   Wingfield, John C ^c   Smith, James N M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chronic stress; Food supplementation; Melospiza melodia; Predator pressure; Synergistic effects

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; FATTY ACID; HETEROPHILE ANTIBODY;

FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PREDATION RISK; SONGBIRD; SYNERGISM;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SONGBIRD; STRESS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOOD; FOOD CHAIN; HEMATOCRIT; HUNGER; IMMUNOLOGY; LEUKOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REPRODUCTION; SPARROW;

ANIMALIA; AVES; LEPUS AMERICANUS; MELOSPIZA MELODIA; PASSERIDAE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HETEROPHILE; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CORTICOSTERONE; FOOD; FOOD CHAIN; HEMATOCRIT; HUNGER; LEUKOCYTES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REPRODUCTION; SPARROWS; STRESS;

EID: 17044381775     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2913     Document Type: Article

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