High migratory fuel loads impair predator evasion in sedge warblers

Auk

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1034-1038

  Kullberg, C ^a   Jakobsson, S ^a   Fransson, T ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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ACROCEPHALUS SCHOENOBAENUS;

EID: 0033785067     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089646     Document Type: Article

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