Avian migration: Temporal multitasking and a case study of melatonin cycles in waders

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 199, Issue , 2012, Pages 457-479

  Helm, Barbara ^a,b,c   Gwinner, Eberhard ^a   Koolhaas, Anita ^d   Battley, Phil ^e   Schwabl, Ingrid ^a   Dekinga, Anne ^d   Piersma, Theunis ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^e MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Annual; Bird; Circadian; Circannual; Clock; Moon; Tidal

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AUTUMN; AVIAN MIGRATION; BODY MASS; CHRONOBIOLOGY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CIRCANNUAL RHYTHM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; LATITUDE; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MALE; MIGRANT BIRD; MOON; NOCTURNAL ANIMAL; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUNLIGHT; WADER; ANIMAL; BIRD; ENVIRONMENT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEASON;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENVIRONMENT; MELATONIN; PHOTOPERIOD; SEASONS;

EID: 84864800006     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: 18757855     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-59427-3.00026-5     Document Type: Chapter

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