Steroid hormone levels are related to choice of colony size in cliff swallows

Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2904-2915

  Brown, Charles R ^a   Brown, Mary Bomberger ^a   Raouf, Samrrah A ^b,d   Smith, Linda C ^c   Wingfield, John C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c RICHARD STOCKTON COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^d Treetops Porthmadog   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cliff Swallow; Coloniality; Corticosterone; Dispersal; Habitat selection; Multistate mark recapture; Petrochelidon pyrrhonota; Social behavior; Steroid hormone levels; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

COLONY STRUCTURE; DISPERSAL; HABITAT SELECTION; PASSERINE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; STEROID;

NEBRASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

AVES; HIRUNDINIDAE; PETROCHELIDON PYRRHONOTA;

EID: 27944483682     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/05-0246     Document Type: Article

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