Brain size, innovative propensity and migratory behaviour in temperate Palaearctic birds

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1571, 2005, Pages 1433-1441

  Sol, Daniel ^a,b   Lefebvre, Louis ^a   Rodríguez Teijeiro, J Domingo ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Animal movement; Conservation; Foraging ecology; Phenotypic flexibility; Seasonal environments

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; EVOLUTION; MIGRATION; PASSERINE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY SIZE; BRAIN SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETIC SELECTION; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEASON; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHY; ORGAN SIZE; PASSERIFORMES; SEASONS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 25444471350     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3099     Document Type: Article

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