Composition of fuel stores and digestive limitations to fuel deposition rate in the long-distance migratory thrush nightingale, Luscinia luscinia

Physiological Zoology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 125-133

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

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

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LUSCINIA LUSCINIA;

EID: 0030929684     PISSN: 0031935X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/639556     Document Type: Article

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