Seasonal body weight variation in five species of woodpeckers

Condor

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 810-822

  Koenig, Walter D ^a   Walters, Eric L ^b   Walters, Jeffrey R ^c   Kellam, James S ^d   Michalek, Klaus G ^e   Schrader, Matthew S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Body mass; Body weight; Fat storage; Food storage; Piciformes; Seasonality; Woodpeckers

Indexed keywords

DENDROCOPOS MAJOR; MELANERPES CAROLINUS; MELANERPES FORMICIVORUS; PICIDAE; PICIFORMES; PICOIDES BOREALIS; PICOIDES PUBESCENS;

EID: 28144442463     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/7718.1     Document Type: Article

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