Metabolic adjustments to increasing foraging costs of starlings in a closed economy

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 208, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 4099-4108

  Wiersma, Popko ^a,b   Salomons, H Martijn ^a   Verhulst, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BMR; Body mass; Flight cost; Foraging reward rate; Pectoral muscle size; Sturnus vulgaris

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BODY WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLYING; FOOD DEPRIVATION; HISTOLOGY; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGY; STARLING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; BODY WEIGHT; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; FOOD DEPRIVATION; LINEAR MODELS; PECTORALIS MUSCLES; STARLINGS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; STURNIDAE; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 28444453309     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01855     Document Type: Article

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