Stopover refueling rate underlies protandry and seasonal variation in migration timing of songbirds

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 634-642

  Seewagen, Chad L ^a,b,c   Guglielmo, Christopher G ^a   Morbey, Yolanda E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^c AKRF Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

differential migration; lipids; protandry; refueling; stopover

Indexed keywords

JUVENILE; LIPID; METABOLITE; MIGRATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLASMA; PROTANDRY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SONGBIRD;

PASSERI;

EID: 84873583547     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/ars225     Document Type: Article

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