Magnetoreception in Mammals

Advances in the Study of Behavior

Volumn 46, Issue , 2014, Pages 45-88

  Begall, Sabine ^a   Burda, Hynek ^a,b   Malkemper, Erich Pascal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic magnetic noise; Conditioning; Homing; Human navigation; Magnetic alignment; Magnetite; Migration; Navigation; Radical pair mechanism; Spatial orientation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900790021     PISSN: 00653454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-800286-5.00002-X     Document Type: Chapter

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