Phenology, seasonal timing and circannual rhythms: Towards a unified framework

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1555, 2010, Pages 3113-3127

  Visser, Marcel E ^a   Caro, Samuel P ^b   Oers, Kees Van ^a   Schaper, Sonja V ^a   Helm, Barbara ^c  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Avian reproduction; Circannual rhythms; Molecular genetics; Phenology; Reproductive physiology; Seasonal timing

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; AVIFAUNA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; FITNESS; GENE EXPRESSION; LIFE CYCLE; PHENOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEASONALITY;

AVES;

EID: 77958028007     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0111     Document Type: Review

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