Under a neighbour's influence: Public information affects stress hormones and behaviour of a songbird

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1692, 2010, Pages 2399-2404

  Cornelius, Jamie M ^a   Breuner, Creagh W ^b   Hahn, Thomas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity; Corticosterone; Environmental predictability; Food reduction; Migration; Red crossbill

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; DECISION MAKING; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; FOOD LIMITATION; GROUP BEHAVIOR; HORMONE; POPULATION MIGRATION; SONGBIRD;

LOXIA CURVIROSTRA; PASSERI;

EID: 77956477921     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0164     Document Type: Article

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