Endogenous circannual rhythmicity in a non-passerine migrant, the knot Calidris canutus

Ardea

Volumn 84, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 75-84

  Cadée, Niels ^a,b   Piersma, Theunis ^a,c   Daan, Serge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Calidris canutus; circannual rhythmicity; endogenous cycles; fattening; migration; moult

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; CIRCANNUAL RHYTHM; KNOT; MOULT;

FRANCE;

CALIDRIS CANUTUS CANUTUS;

EID: 0030301948     PISSN: 03732266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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