Fat-deposition strategies among high-latitude passerine migrants

Auk

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 544-557

  Benson, Anna Marie ^a   Winker, Kevin ^b  

^a Alaska Bird Observatory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA MUSEUM   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Energetics; Migration; Nearctic Neotropic migrants; Stopover ecology; Subarctic stopover sites

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; FAT RESERVE; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; PASSERINE; STOPOVER;

ALASKA; FAIRBANKS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

AVES; NEARCTIC; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 18744412419     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1642/0004-8038(2005)122[0544:FSAHPM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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