Stress responsiveness, age and body condition interactively affect flight initiation distance in breeding female eiders

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 889-896

  Seltmann, Martin W ^a   Öst, Markus ^a   Jaatinen, Kim ^a   Atkinson, Shannon ^b   Mashburn, Kendall ^b   Hollmén, Tuula ^b,c  

^a NOVIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c ALASKA SEALIFE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Body condition; Boldness; Corticosterone; Flight initiation distance; Incubation duration; Personality; Predation risk; Repeatability; Somateria mollissima

Indexed keywords

AGE; BODY CONDITION; FEMALE; FITNESS; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; HORMONE; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEABIRD;

AVES; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA;

EID: 84866937401     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.07.012     Document Type: Article

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