When a year takes 18 months: Evidence for a strong circannual clock in a shorebird

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 278-279

  Piersma, Theunis ^a,b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BODY MASS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; PLUMAGE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CIRCANNUAL RHYTHM; FEATHER; NONHUMAN; SHOREBIRD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; PERIODICITY; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CALIDRIS; CALIDRIS CANUTUS; PASSERI;

EID: 0036293868     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-002-0325-z     Document Type: Article

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