Explaining individual variation in patterns of mass loss in breeding birds

Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Rands, Sean A ^a,b   Cuthill, Innes C ^a   Houston, Alasdair I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

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EID: 33745411224     PISSN: 17424682     EISSN: 17424682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-4682-3-20     Document Type: Article

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