Does metabolic rate predict risk-taking behaviour? A field experiment in a wild passerine bird

Functional Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 239-249

  Mathot, Kimberley J ^a   Nicolaus, Marion ^a   Araya Ajoy, Yimen G ^a   Dingemanse, Niels J ^a,b   Kempenaers, Bart ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Parus major; Animal personality; Basal metabolic rate; Foraging behaviour

Indexed keywords

FIELD SURVEY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; METABOLISM; MORTALITY; PASSERINE; PREDATION RISK; WILD POPULATION;

ACCIPITER NISUS; ANIMALIA; AVES; PARUS MAJOR; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 84922599974     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12318     Document Type: Article

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