Seasonal age differences in weight and biometrics of migratory dunlins (calidris alpina) at eilat, Israel

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Volumn 77, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 67-72

  Yosef, Reuven ^a   Meissner, Wlodzimierz ^b  

^a Ben Gurion University of the Negev Eilat Campus   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; CALIDRIS ALPINA;

EID: 33646673095     PISSN: 00306525     EISSN: 1727947X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2989/00306520609485510     Document Type: Article

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