Handling stress as a measurement of personality in great tit nestlings (parus major)

Ethology

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 366-374

  Fucikova, Eva ^a   Drent, Piet J ^a   Smits, Nadine ^a   Van Oers, Kees ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLEDGING; HANDLING STRESS; NESTLING; PASSERINE; SURVIVAL;

AVES; PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 62749113427     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2009.01618.x     Document Type: Article

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