How climate change might influence the starvation-predation risk trade-off response

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1672, 2009, Pages 3553-3560

  Cresswell, W ^a   Clark, J A ^b   Macleod, R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Great tit; Interrupted foraging; Mass; Mass dependent predation risk; Starvation risk

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENERGY BUDGET; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PASSERINE; PREDATION RISK; STARVATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRADE-OFF;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FORAGING; HAWK; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPARROW; STARVATION; UNITED KINGDOM; WINTER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ACCIPITER NISUS; AVES; PARUS MAJOR;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; FALCONIFORMES; FEMALE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEAT BELTS; SONGBIRDS; STARVATION;

EID: 70349625828     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1000     Document Type: Article

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