Super size me: An experimental test of the factors affecting lipid content and the ability of residual body mass to predict lipid stores in nestling European Starlings

Functional Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 414-420

  Ardia, D R ^a,b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Body condition; Individual variation; Nest temperatures; Offspring quality; Sturnus vulgaris

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; LIPID; PASSERINE; PHYSIOLOGY;

AVES; STURNUS VULGARIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 23444442548     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2005.00997.x     Document Type: Article

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