Feather growth rate and mass in nearctic passerines with variable migratory behavior and molt pattern

Auk

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 222-230

  De La Hera, Iván ^a,b   DeSante, David F ^c   Milá, Borja ^d  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c Institute for Bird Populations   (United States)

^d MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Allometry isometry; MAPS; PDAP; Phylogenetic ANCOVA; Scaling relationships

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; MIGRATORY SPECIES; MOLT; PASSERINE; PHYLOGENETICS;

AVES;

EID: 84861405095     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/auk.2012.11212     Document Type: Article

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