Context-dependent costs and constraints of begging and non-begging activity by common grackle nestlings at the scale of the nanoclimate

Functional Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 904-912

  Glassey, Barb ^a   Gunson, Melanie ^a   Muir, Robert ^a  

^a CAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Begging; Behaviour; Energy expenditure; Environmental heterogeneity; Metabolic cost; Movement; Nanoclimate; Nest; Nestling; Passerine; Shade seeking; Solar radiation; Temperature; Thermal

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; BEGGING BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BODY TEMPERATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HETEROGENEITY; HOMOGENEITY; MOVEMENT; NESTLING; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SOLAR RADIATION;

PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; QUISCALUS QUISCULA;

EID: 84904305335     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12225     Document Type: Article

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