Food availability is expressed through physiological stress indicators in nestling white ibis: A food supplementation experiment

Functional Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 682-690

  Herring, Garth ^a,c   Cook, Mark I ^b   Gawlik, Dale E ^a   Call, Erynn M ^b,d  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EVERGLADES DIVISION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Eudocimus albus; Everglades wetlands; Feeding experiment; Food limitation; Heat shock proteins; Wading birds

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; HEAT SHOCK; JUVENILE; NESTLING; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PROTEIN; WATERFOWL;

EVERGLADES; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

AVES; EUDOCIMUS; EUDOCIMUS ALBUS;

EID: 79952722132     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2010.01792.x     Document Type: Article

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