Physiological and behavioural correlates of life-history variation: A comparison between tropical and temperate zone House Wrens

Functional Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 491-499

  Tieleman, B I ^a,b   Dijkstra, T H ^b   Lasky, J R ^c   Mauck, R A ^c   Visser, G H ^b   Williams, J B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c KENYON COLLEGE   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird; Energy expenditure; Feeding frequency; Reproductive effort; Water influx rate

Indexed keywords

BIRD; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

CENTRAL AMERICA; NORTH AMERICA; OHIO; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; UNITED STATES;

AVES; TROGLODYTES; TROGLODYTES AEDON; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 33745067486     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2006.01126.x     Document Type: Article

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