Evidence of the trade-off between starvation and predation risks in ducks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Zimmer, Cédric ^a,b   Boos, Mathieu ^c   Poulin, Nicolas ^a,b   Gosler, Andrew ^d   Petit, Odile ^a,b   Robin, Jean Patrice ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Research Agency in Applied Ecology Naturaconst   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUCK; FEMALE; FLYING; FOOD INTAKE; HABITAT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERIODICITY; PREDATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STARVATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY WEIGHT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FORELIMB; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

ANAS; ANAS CRECCA; ANAS PLATYRHYNCHOS; AVES; AYTHYA FULIGULA;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DUCKS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RISK FACTORS; STARVATION; WING;

EID: 79960632484     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022352     Document Type: Article

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