Breeding latitude drives individual schedules in a trans-hemispheric migrant bird

Nature Communications

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Conklin, Jesse R ^a   Battley, Phil F ^a   Potter, Murray A ^a   Fox, James W ^b  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREEDING; LATITUDE; LIMOSA LAPPONICA BAUERI; MIGRANT BIRD; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; SHOREBIRD; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; BIRD; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION;

AVES; LIMOSA LAPPONICA; LIMOSA LAPPONICA BAUERI;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; BREEDING; ECOSYSTEM; NEW ZEALAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864959358     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1072     Document Type: Article

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