Sugar preferences in nectar- and fruit-eating birds: Behavioral patterns and physiological causes

Biotropica

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 3-15

  Lotz, Chris N ^a   Schondube, Jorge E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ECOSISTEMAS Y SUSTENTABILIDAD   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Digestion; Fruit eating birds; Hummingbirds; Nectar feeding birds; Passerines; Physiology; Sucrose; Sugar selection; Sunbirds

Indexed keywords

ECOPHYSIOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD PREFERENCE; FRUGIVORY; NECTARIVORY;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES; TROCHILIDAE;

EID: 33645002555     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2006.00104.x     Document Type: Review

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