Food availability but not melatonin affects nocturnal restlessness in a wild migrating passerine

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 187-192

  Fusani, Leonida ^a   Cardinale, Massimiliano ^b   Schwabl, Ingrid ^c   Goymann, Wolfgang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bird migration; Condition; Garden warbler; Melatonin; Nocturnal restlessness; Stopover; Sylvia borin; Zugunruhe

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BIRD; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RELEASE; LOCOMOTION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PASSERINE; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTLESSNESS;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DIET; FOOD; MELATONIN; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SEASONS; SONGBIRDS;

EID: 78651459415     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2010.11.013     Document Type: Article

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