Departure fuel loads in time-minimizing migrating birds can be explained by the energy costs of being heavy

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 29-34

  Klaassen, Marcel ^a,b   Lindström, Åke ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY MASS; ENERGY COST; FLIGHT; METABOLIC RATE; MIGRATION; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AVES; LUSCINIA SVECICA; SELASPHORUS RUFUS; TROCHILIDAE;

EID: 0030574233     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.1996.0198     Document Type: Article

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