Energy limitations for spring migration and breeding: The case of brent geese Branta bernicla tracked by satellite telemetry to Svalbard and Greenland

Oikos

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 426-445

  Clausen, Preben ^a   Green, Martin ^b   Alerstam, Thomas ^b  

^a D   (Denmark)

^b Ecology Building ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; BIOTELEMETRY; BODY MASS; FAT RESERVE; LIMITING FACTOR; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; WATERFOWL;

ARCTIC; DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREENLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

ANAS; ANATIDAE; ANSER; ANSER SP.; AVES; BRANTA; BRANTA BERNICLA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0344152309     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2003.12340.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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