Corticosterone and time-activity budget: An experiment with Black-legged kittiwakes

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 482-491

  Angelier, Frédéric ^a   Clément Chastel, Céline ^a   Gabrielsen, Geir Wing ^b   Chastel, Olivier ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Activity logger; Body condition; Foraging decisions; Hormone; Kittiwake; Resource allocation; Rissa tridactyla; Seabird

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FORAGING; HORMONE DETERMINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEABIRD;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; CHARADRIIFORMES; CORTICOSTERONE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FOOD DEPRIVATION; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34848826843     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2007.07.003     Document Type: Article

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