Seasonal changes in body size and mass of Red Knots Calidris canutus during autumn migration through southern Baltic

Ornis Svecica

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 97-104

  Meissner, Włodzimierz ^a   Kamont, Piotr ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^b Ogolnopolskie Towarzystwo Ochrony Ptakow   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; MIGRATION ROUTE; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; STOPOVER; WADER;

BALTIC REGION; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; WORLD;

AVES; CALIDRIS CANUTUS;

EID: 19844381692     PISSN: 11026812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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