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Green Matters! Growing Vegetation Stimulates Breeding under Short-Day Conditions in Wild Canaries (Serinus canaria)

Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Department of Behavioural Neurobiology, Seewiesen, Germany

Wolfgang Goymann

Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Department of Behavioural Neurobiology, Seewiesen, Germany, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Department Biological Rhythms & Behaviour, Andechs, Germany

Stefan Leitner

Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Department of Behavioural Neurobiology, Seewiesen, Germany, School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, UK, leitner{at}orn.mpg.de

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Journal of Biological Rhythms, Vol. 22, No. 6, 554-557 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0748730407306928


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