Contribution of emergent aquatic insects to refueling in spring migrant songbirds

Auk

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 127-137

  MacDade, Lauren S ^a   Rodewald, Paul G ^a   Hatch, Kent A ^b,c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chironomidae; Diet; Emergent aquatic insects; Midges; Migration; Plasma lipid metabolites; Refueling; Songbirds; Stable carbon isotopes; Stopover ecology

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; DIET; FOOD WEB; INSECT; METABOLITE; PREY AVAILABILITY; SONGBIRD; SPRING (SEASON); STABLE ISOTOPE; STOPOVER; WETLAND;

OHIO; UNITED STATES;

ARTHROPODA; CHIRONOMIDAE; DENDROICA CORONATA; DENDROICA MAGNOLIA; HEXAPODA; MAGNOLIACEAE; PASSERI; ZONOTRICHIA ALBICOLLIS;

EID: 79954489559     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/auk.2011.10186     Document Type: Article

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