Bryant DM. Energy expenditure and body mass changes as measures of reproductive costs in birds. Funct Ecol. 1988;2:23–4.
Article
Google Scholar
Cam E, Aubry LM, Authier M. The conundrum of heterogeneities in life history studies. Trends Ecol Evol. 2016;31:872–86.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Cox RM, Parker EU, Cheney DM, Liebl AL, Martin LB, Calsbeek R. Experimental evidence for physiological costs underlying the trade-off between reproduction and survival. Funct Ecol. 2010;24:1262–9.
Article
Google Scholar
Crates RA, Firth JA, Farine DR, Garroway CJ, Kidd LR, Aplin LM, Radersma R, Milligan ND, Voelkl B, Culina A, Verhelst BL, Hinde CA, Sheldon BC. Individual variation in winter supplementary food consumption and its consequences for reproduction in wild birds. J Avian Biol. 2016;47:678–89.
Article
Google Scholar
Cuthill IC, Maddocks SA, Weall CV, Jones EKM. Body mass regulation in response to changes in feeding predictability and overnight energy expenditure. Behav Ecol. 2000;11:189–95.
Article
Google Scholar
Dobado-Berrios PM, Ferrer M. Age-related changes of plasma alkaline phosphatase and inorganic phosphorus, and late ossification of the cranial roof in the Spanish imperial eagle (Aquila adalberti C.L. Brehm, 1861). Physiol Zool. 1997;70:421–7.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Fair J, Whitaker S, Pearson B. Sources of variation in haematocrit in birds. Ibis. 2007;149:535–52.
Article
Google Scholar
García-Navas V, Arroyo L, José Sanz J. Nestbox use and reproductive parameters of tree sparrows Passer montanus: are they affected by the presence of old nests? Acta Ornithol. 2008;43:32–42.
Article
Google Scholar
Hill EF, Murray HC. Seasonal variation in diagnostic enzymes and biochemical constituents of captive northern bobwhites and passerines. Comp Biochem Physiol B. 1987;87:933–40.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Iqbal J. An enzyme immobilized microassay in capillary electrophoresis for characterization and inhibition studies of alkaline phosphatases. Anal Biochem. 2011;414:226–31.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Jakob EM, Marshall SD, Uetz GW. Estimating fitness: a comparison of body condition indices. Oikos. 1996;77:61–7.
Article
Google Scholar
Krause JS, Németh Z, Pérez JH, Chmura HE, Ramenofsky M, Wingfield JC. Annual Hct profiles in two subspecies of white-crowned sparrow: a migrant and a resident comparison. Physiol Biochem Zool. 2016;89:51–60.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Lallès JP. Intestinal alkaline phosphatase: novel functions and protective effects. Nutr Rev. 2014;72:82–94.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Li DM, Wang G, Wingfield JC, Zhang Z, Ding CQ, Lei FM. Seasonal changes in adrenocortical responses to acute stress in Eurasian tree sparrow (Passer montanus) on the Tibetan Plateau: comparison with house sparrow (P. domesticus) in North America and with the migratory P. domesticus in Qinghai Province. Gen Comp Endocrinol. 2008;158:47–53.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Li DM, Wu JZ, Zhang XR, Ma XF, Wingfield JC, Lei FM, Wang G, Wu YF. Comparison of adrenocortical responses to acute stress in lowland and highland Eurasian Tree Sparrows (Passer montanus): similar patterns during the breeding, but different during the prebasic molt. J Exp Zool. 2011;315A:512–9.
Article
Google Scholar
Li DM, Zhang XR, Li YQ, Hao CY, Zhang J, Wu YF. Stress responses of testosterone and corticosterone-binding globulin in a multi-brooded species, Eurasian Tree Sparrows (Passer montanus): Does CBG function as a mediator? Horm Behav. 2012;61:582–9.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Martins MJ, Dias PO, Hipólito-Reis C. Rat serum alkaline phosphatase electrophoretic fractions: variations with feeding, starvation and cellulose fibre ingestion. Clin Nutr. 1998;17:279–85.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Merila J, Wiggins DA. Mass loss in breeding blue tits: the role of energetic stress. J Anim Ecol. 1997;66:452–60.
Article
Google Scholar
Newton SF. Body condition of a small passerine bird: ultrasonic assessment and significance in overwinter survival. J Zool. 1993;229:561–80.
Article
Google Scholar
Pap PL, Vágási CI, Tökölyi J, Czirják GÁ, Barta Z. Variation in haematological indices and immune function during the annual cycle in the great tit Parus major. Ardea. 2015;98:105–12.
Article
Google Scholar
Piersma T, Drent J. Phenotypic flexibility and the evolution of organismal design. Trends Ecol Evol. 2003;18:228–33.
Article
Google Scholar
R Core Team. R: a language and environment for statistical computing. Vienna: R Foundation for Statistical Computing; 2016.
Richner H, Oppliger A, Christe P. Effect of an ectoparasite on reproduction in great tits. J Anim Ecol. 1993;62:703–10.
Article
Google Scholar
Round PD, Hansson B, Pearson DJ, Kennerley PR, Bensch S. Lost and found: the enigmatic large-billed reed warbler Acrocephalus orinus rediscovered after 139 years. J Avian Biol. 2007;38:133–8.
Article
Google Scholar
Seiser PE, Duffy LK, David McGuire A, Roby DD, Golet GH, Litzow MA. Comparison of pigeon guillemot, Cepphus columba, blood parameters from oiled and unoiled areas of Alaska eight years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Mar Pollut Bull. 2000;40:152–64.
Article
CAS
Google Scholar
Smits JE, Bortolotti GR, Baos R, Jovani R, Tella JL, Hoffmann WE. Disrupted bone metabolism in contaminant-exposed white storks (Ciconia ciconia) in southwestern Spain. Environm Pollut. 2007;145:538–44.
Article
CAS
Google Scholar
Stearns SC. Trade-offs in life-history evolution. Funct Ecol. 1989;3:259–68.
Article
Google Scholar
Sun YF, Li M, Song G, Lei FM, Li DM, Wu YF. The role of climate factors in geographic variation in body mass and wing length in a passerine bird. Avian Res. 2017;8:1.
Article
Google Scholar
Sun YF, Ren ZP, Wu YF, Lei FM, Dudley R, Li DM. Flying high: limits to flight performance by sparrows on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. J Exp Biol. 2016;219:3642–8.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Tilgar V, Kilgas P, Mägi M, Mänd R. Age-related changes in the activity of bone alkaline phosphatase and its application as a marker of prefledging maturity of nestlings in wild passerines. Auk. 2008;125:456–60.
Article
Google Scholar
Tilgar V, Ots I, Mänd R. Bone alkaline phosphatase as a sensitive indicator of skeletal development in birds: a study of the great tit nestlings. Physiol Biochem Zool. 2004;77:530–5.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Viñuela J, Ferrer M. Regulation of growth in red kites and imperial eagles. Wilson Bull. 1997;109:92–101.
Google Scholar
Villegas A, Sánchez J, Costillo E, Corbacho C. Blood chemistry and haematocrit of the black vulture (Aegypius monachus). Comp Biochem Physiol A. 2002;132:489–97.
Article
CAS
Google Scholar
Williams GC. Natural selection, the costs of reproduction, and a refinement of lack’s principle. Am Nat. 1966;100:687–90.
Article
Google Scholar
Williams TD. Physiological adaptations for breeding in birds. Princeton: Princeton University Press; 2012.
Google Scholar
Wingfield JC. Organization of vertebrate annual cycles: implications for control mechanisms. Phil Trans R Soc Lond B. 2008;363:425–41.
Article
Google Scholar
Wojczulanis-Jakubas K, Jakubas D, Chastel O, Kulaszewicz I. A big storm in a small body: seasonal changes in body mass, hormone concentrations and leukocyte profile in the little auk (Alle alle). Polar Biol. 2015;38:1203–12.
Article
Google Scholar
Zhang SP, Lei FM, Liu SL, Li DM, Chen C, Wang PZ. Variation in baseline corticosterone levels of Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus) populations along an urban gradient in Beijing, China. J Ornithol. 2011;152:801–6.
Article
Google Scholar
Zhao YL, Li M, Sun YF, Wei W, Kou GQ, Guo LL, Xing DN, Wu YF, Li DM, Zhao BH. Life-history dependent relationships between body condition and immunity, between immunity indices in male Eurasian Tree Sparrows. Comp Biochem Physiol A. 2017;210:7–13.
Article
CAS
Google Scholar
Zheng WH, Li M, Liu JS, Shao SL, Xu XJ. Seasonal variation of metabolic thermogenesis in Eurasian tree sparrows (Passer montanus) over a latitudinal gradient. Physiol Biochem Zool. 2014;87:704–18.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar