Coping with the extremes: Stress physiology varies between winter and summer in breeding opportunists

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 312-315

  Cornelius, Jamie M ^a,c   Breuner, Creagh W ^b   Hahn, Thomas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Red crossbill; Reproduction; Songbird

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SEASON; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HORMONE; NEST; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SECRETION; SONGBIRD; STEROID; SUMMER; TRADE-OFF; WINTER;

LOXIA CURVIROSTRA; PASSERI;

EID: 84860343053     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0865     Document Type: Article

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