Travelling on a budget: Predictions and ecological evidence for bottlenecks in the annual cycle of long-distance migrants

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1490, 2008, Pages 247-266

  Buehler, Deborah M ^a   Piersma, Theunis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Annual cycle; Calidris canutus; Migration; Moult; Plumage; Red knot

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; MIGRATION; MIGRATORY SPECIES; PASSERINE; PLUMAGE; POPULATION BOTTLENECK;

AVES; CALIDRIS CANUTUS; CALIDRIS CANUTUS RUFA;

EID: 37049030176     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2138     Document Type: Review

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