Water balance during real and simulated long-distance migratory flight in the Bar-tailed Godwit

Condor

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 645-652

  Landys, Meta M ^a   Piersma, Theunis ^b,c   Visser, G Henk ^c   Jukema, Joop ^d   Wijker, Arnold ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d Ringing Group Castricum ^*  (Netherlands)

^e Ringing Group Castricum   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bar tailed Godwit; Dehydration; Limosa lapponica; Migration; Model simulation; Stopover; Water balance

Indexed keywords

AVES; LIMOSA; LIMOSA LAPPONICA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033846156     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/condor/102.3.645     Document Type: Article

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