Stress associated with group living in a long-lived bird

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 608-610

  Selva, Nuria ^a   Cortés Avizanda, Ainara ^b   Lemus, Jesús A ^c   Blanco, Guillermo ^c   Mueller, Thomas ^d   Heinrich, Bernd ^e   Donázar, José A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF NATURE CONSERVATION   (Poland)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^d Bldg 142   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Bialowie a forest; Common raven; Corvus corax; Glucocorticoids; Parasites; Sociality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BREEDING POPULATION; EUSOCIALITY; FECES; GROUP BEHAVIOR; HORMONE; JUVENILE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LIFESTYLE; METABOLITE; NATURAL SELECTION; PARASITE; SONGBIRD; TERRITORIALITY; WILD POPULATION;

BIALOWIEZA FOREST;

AVES; CORVUS CORAX;

EID: 79955946696     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.1204     Document Type: Article

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