Exploratory behaviour and stressor hyper responsiveness facilitate range expansion of an introduced songbird

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1746, 2012, Pages 4375-4381

  Liebl, Andrea L ^a   Martin, Lynn B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosterone regulation; Exploratory behaviour; House sparrow; Introduced species; Range expansion

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECONOMIC IMPACT; FACILITATION; HORMONE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MEMORY; RANGE EXPANSION; SONGBIRD;

COAST PROVINCE; KAKAMEGA; KENYA; MOMBASA; WESTERN PROVINCE [KENYA];

AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERI;

EID: 84866878413     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1606     Document Type: Article

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