Daily routines of body mass gain in birds: 1. An exponential model

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 503-516

  Polo, Vicente ^a   Bautista, Luis Miguel ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BODY MASS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOOD AVAILABILITY; PREDATION RISK;

AVES;

EID: 33748199991     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.09.024     Document Type: Article

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