Using skin temperature and activity profiles to assign chronotype in birds

Abstract Chronotypes describe consistent differences between individuals in biological time-keeping. They have been linked both with underlying variation in the circadian system and fitness. Quantification of chronotypes is usually by time of onset, midpoint, or offset of a rhythmic behaviour or phy...

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Main Authors: Aurelia F. T. Strauß, Dominic J. McCafferty, Andreas Nord, Marina Lehmann, Barbara Helm
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-09-01
Series:Animal Biotelemetry
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-022-00296-w