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Daily energy expenditure of singing great reed warblers Acrocephalus arundinaceus

Daily energy expenditure of singing great reed warblers Acrocephalus arundinaceus

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_20875659

Daily energy expenditure of singing great reed warblers Acrocephalus arundinaceus

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Full title

Daily energy expenditure of singing great reed warblers Acrocephalus arundinaceus

Publisher

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Journal title

Journal of avian biology, 2008-07, Vol.39 (4), p.384-388

Language

English

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Publisher

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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Contents

According to honest signalling theory, signals must be costly to produce to retain information about the signaller's quality. The song produced by male birds during breeding is a vocal “ornament” used for intra‐ and inter‐sexual purposes. The energetic cost of this vocal signal remains a contentious issue. We used the doubly labelled water method t...

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Daily energy expenditure of singing great reed warblers Acrocephalus arundinaceus

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_20875659

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_20875659

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ISSN

0908-8857

E-ISSN

1600-048X

DOI

10.1111/j.0908-8857.2008.04427.x

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