Estimating organ size in small migrating shorebirds with ultrasonography: An intercalibration exercise

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 28-37

  Dietz, Maurine W ^a   Dekinga, Anne ^b   Piersma, Theunis ^a,b   Verhulst, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY CONSTITUTION; DIET; ECHOGRAPHY; FORELIMB; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STOMACH;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BODY CONSTITUTION; DIET; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STOMACH; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; WING;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CALIDRIS CANUTUS; CICONIIFORMES; MAMMALIA; PLUVIALIS APRICARIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032832063     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/316648     Document Type: Article

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