Nonbreeding Eastern Curlews Numenius madagascariensis Do Not Increase the Rate of Intake or Digestive Efficiency before Long-Distance Migration because of an Apparent Digestive Constraint

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 704-715

  Zharikov, Yuri ^a   Skilleter, Gregory A ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; DIGESTION; FOOD INTAKE; MIGRATORY SPECIES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIRD; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIGESTIVE FUNCTION; FECES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BIRDS; DIGESTIVE PHYSIOLOGY; FECES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CRUSTACEA; NUMENIUS; NUMENIUS MADAGASCARIENSIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0347566267     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/376427     Document Type: Article

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