Clocks for the city: Circadian differences between forest and city songbirds

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1763, 2013, Pages

  Dominoni, D M ^a,b,c   Helm, B ^a,b,c   Lehmann, M ^b   Dowse, H B ^d   Partecke, J ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Chronotype; Circadian rhythms; Light at night; Radiotelemetry; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; RADIOTELEMETRY; SONGBIRD; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBANIZATION; WILD POPULATION;

AVES; PASSERI; TURDUS MERULA;

ANIMAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CITY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; LIGHT; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD; TREE; URBANIZATION;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CITIES; ECOSYSTEM; LIGHT; MALE; SONGBIRDS; TREES; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84891703217     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.0593     Document Type: Article

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