Storms drive altitudinal migration in a tropical bird

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1693, 2010, Pages 2511-2519

  Boyle, W Alice ^a,b   Norris, D Ryan ^b   Guglielmo, Christopher G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Allostasis; Climate change; Foraging; Metabolism; Partial migration; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDINAL ZONATION; BREEDING POPULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ELEVATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FRUGIVORY; HOMEOSTASIS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; METABOLISM; METABOLITE; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; MORTALITY RISK; MOUNTAIN REGION; POPULATION MIGRATION; RAINFALL; SLOPE; SONGBIRD; STORM; TAXONOMY; TRADE-OFF; TROPICAL FOREST; TROPICAL REGION;

COSTA RICA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CORAPIPO ALTERA;

EID: 77956469109     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0344     Document Type: Conference Paper

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