Variability in basal metabolic rate of a long-distance migrant shorebird (Red Knot, Calldrls canutus) reflects shifts in organ sizes

Physiological Zoology

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 191-217

  Plersma, Theunls ^a,b   Bruinzeel, Leo ^a   Drent, Rudolf ^a   Kersten, Marcel ^a,c   Van Der Meer, Jaap ^b   Wiersma, Popko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c Ministry of Transport Public Works and Water Management Netherlands   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIDRIS CANUTUS;

EID: 0030019036     PISSN: 0031935X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/physzool.69.1.30164207     Document Type: Article

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