Stopover decision during migration: Physiological conditions predict nocturnal restlessness in wild passerines

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 302-305

  Fusani, Leonida ^a   Cardinale, Massimiliano ^b   Carere, Claudio ^c   Goymann, Wolfgang ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bird; Migration; Migratory restlessness; Stopover; Zugunruhe

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; BODY MASS; ENDOGENOUS CUE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; PASSERINE; PHYSIOLOGY; STOPOVER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY MASS; DECISION MAKING; ENERGY; EUROPE; GARDEN WARBLERS; MALE; MIGRATION; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NIGHT; NONHUMAN; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESTLESSNESS; SAMPLE; SAXICOLA RUBETRA; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; SYLVIA BORIN; SYLVIA COMMUNIS; THICKNESS; WHINCHATS; WHITETHROATS;

AVES; SAXICOLA RUBETRA; SYLVIA BORIN; SYLVIA COMMUNIS;

EID: 66149164807     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0755     Document Type: Article

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