Mass loss by breeding female songbirds: Food supplementation supports energetic stress hypothesis in black-throated blue warblers

Condor

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 304-311

  Nagy, Laura R ^a,b   Stanculescu, Dominic ^a   Holmes, Richard T ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b TETRA TECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendroica caerulescens; Energetic stress; Food limitation; Reproductive stress; Wing loading hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; DENDROICA CAERULESCENS; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 34248651563     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/0010-5422(2007)109[304:MLBBFS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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