The relationship between environment, corticosterone, food caching, spatial memory, and the hippocampus in chickadees

Ecology and Behavior of Chickadees and Titmice: An Integrated Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Pravosudov, Vladimir V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chickadees; Corticosterone; Eurasian parids; Food caching; Hippocampus; Photoperiod; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920753162     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198569992.003.0003     Document Type: Chapter

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