Optimal migration strategies in animals that run: A range equation and its consequences

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 631-636

  Hedenstrom A ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; EQUATION; MIGRATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 0142058961     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2234     Document Type: Article

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