Exposure to food insecurity increases energy storage and reduces somatic maintenance in European starlings (<italic toggle="yes">Sturnus vulgaris</italic>)
Birds exposed to food insecurity—defined as temporally variable access to food—respond adaptively by storing more energy. To do this, they may reduce energy allocation to other functions such as somatic maintenance and repair. To investigate this trade-off, we exposed juvenile European starlings (St...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Royal Society
2021-09-01
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| Series: | Royal Society Open Science |
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| Online Access: | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.211099 |