Seasonal body mass changes in Eurasian Golden Plovers Pluvialis apricaria staging in the Netherlands: Decline in late autumn mass peak correlates with increase in raptor numbers

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Volumn 145, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 565-571

  Piersma, Theunis ^a,b   Koolhaas, Anita ^a,c   Jukema, Joop ^d  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences   (Netherlands)

^d NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; PREDATION RISK; SEASONALITY; STOPOVER; WADER;

NETHERLANDS;

ACCIPITER GENTILIS; AVES; CICONIIFORMES; FALCO PEREGRINUS; PEREGRINUS; PLUVIALIS APRICARIA; RAPTORES; SCOLOPACIDAE;

EID: 0142155027     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1474-919X.2003.00178.x     Document Type: Article

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