Time budgets of Snow Geese Chen caerulescens and Ross's Geese Chen rossii in mixed flocks: Implications of body size, ambient temperature and family associations

Ibis

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 134-144

  Jónsson, Jón Einar ^a,b   Afton, Alan D ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Alertness; Energetics; Foraging; Peck rates; Predation; Social behaviour; Waterfowl

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT AIR; BODY SIZE; PREDATION; SIZE EFFECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STATUS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPORAL CYCLE;

ANATIDAE; ANSER; ANSER ROSSII; CHEN; CHEN CAERULESCENS; CHEN CAERULESCENS CAERULESCENS; CHEN ROSSII;

EID: 58149097305     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2008.00895.x     Document Type: Article

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