Dark or short nights: Differential latitudinal constraints in nestling provisioning patterns of a nocturnally hunting bird species

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Zárybnická, Markéta ^a   Korpimäki, Erkki ^b   Griesser, Michael ^c,d,e  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREEDING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLUTCH SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CZECH REPUBLIC; DARKNESS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FINLAND; FLEDGLING; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HUNTING TIME; LATITUDE; MALE; MORTALITY; NESTLING; NESTLING MORTALITY; NESTLING PROVISIONING; NIGHT; NIGHT LENGTH; NOCTURNAL SPECIES; NONHUMAN; OWL; PREDATION; PREY; PREY AVAILABILITY; PREY DELIVERY; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; SEASONAL VARIATION; TENGMALM OWL;

ANIMALS; CZECH REPUBLIC; DARKNESS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FINLAND; FOOD; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; STRIGIFORMES;

AVES; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 84861217476     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036932     Document Type: Article

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