Testing for between individual correlations of personality and physiological traits in a wild bird

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 205-213

  Kluen, Edward ^a   Siitari, Heli ^b   Brommer, Jon E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Behavioural trait; Blue tit; Haematocrit; Immune system; Immunoglobulin; Pace of life syndrome; Variance partitioning

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PASSERINE; PHYSIOLOGY; WILD POPULATION;

AVES;

EID: 84949114862     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-013-1635-1     Document Type: Article

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