Fattening strategies of wintering great tits support the optimal body mass hypothesis under conditions of extremely low ambient temperature

Functional Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 172-177

  Krams, Indrikis ^a   Cirule, Dina ^a   Suraka, Valerija ^a   Krama, Tatjana ^a,b   Rantala, Markus J ^c   Ramey, Gary ^a  

^a DAUGAVPILS UNIVERSITY   (Latvia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Fattening strategies; Flocking; Low temperatures; Social dominance; Winter survival

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BODY MASS; DOMINANCE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LOW TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SONGBIRD; STARVATION; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 73949099914     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2009.01628.x     Document Type: Article

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