Drinking water boosts food intake rate, body mass increase and fat accumulation in migratory blackcaps (Sylvia atricapilla)

Oecologia

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 21-30

  Tsurim, Ido ^a   Sapir, Nir ^b   Belmaker, Jonathan ^a   Shanni, Itai ^c   Izhaki, Ido ^d   Wojciechowski, Michał S ^e   Karasov, William H ^f   Pinshow, Berry ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^e NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Diet shift; Fruit; Metabolizability; Pistacia atlantica; Stopover

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; DECIDUOUS TREE; DIGESTION; DRINKING WATER; FAT; INGESTION RATE; METABOLISM; MIGRATORY SPECIES; SONGBIRD;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIC INTAKE; DRINKING; EATING; FOOD PREFERENCE; FRUIT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PISTACHIO; POPULATION MIGRATION; SONGBIRD; TENEBRIO;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DRINKING; EATING; ENERGY INTAKE; FOOD PREFERENCES; FRUIT; PISTACIA; SONGBIRDS; TENEBRIO;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; NEGEV; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

AVES; PISTACIA ATLANTICA; PISTACIA VERA; SYLVIA ATRICAPILLA;

EID: 42149186377     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-008-0970-9     Document Type: Article

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