Seasonality in a temperate zone bird can be entrained by near equatorial photoperiods

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1610, 2007, Pages 721-725

  Dawson, Alistair ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bird; Circannual rhythms; Latitude; Photoperiodism; Starling

Indexed keywords

BREEDING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MATURATION; MOLT; PASSERINE; PHOTOPERIOD; REPRODUCTION; SEASONALITY; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BIRD; BREEDING; DARKNESS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GONAD; LATITUDE; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIMULATION; STARLING; STURNUS VULGARIS; SUMMER; ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCTION; SEASON;

AVES; STURNIDAE; STURNUS VULGARIS;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; GEOGRAPHY; GONADS; MOLTING; ORGAN SIZE; PHOTOPERIOD; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; STARLINGS;

EID: 33947504183     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.0067     Document Type: Article

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