Egg hatchability in high Arctic breeding wader species Charadriiformes is not affected by determining incubation stage using the egg flotation technique

Bird Study

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 522-525

  Hansen, Jannik ^a   Schmidt, Niels Martin ^a,b   Reneerkens, Jeroen ^c  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EGG; HATCHING; INCUBATION; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; WADER;

ARCTIC;

CHARADRIIFORMES;

EID: 84857405186     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063657.2011.601411     Document Type: Article

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