Seasonal time keeping in a long-distance migrating shorebird

Journal of Biological Rhythms

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 509-521

  Karagicheva, Julia ^a   Rakhimberdiev, Eldar ^a,b   Dekinga, Anne ^a   Brugge, Maarten ^a   Koolhaas, Anita ^a   Ten Horn, Job ^a   Piersma, Theunis ^a,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

annual cycle; Calidris canutus; circannual rhythm; dissociation of life history stages; life cycle stage; mother wavelet; plasticity; R code for continuous wavelet transformation; seasonal environmental change

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BIRD; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENVIRONMENT; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; REPRODUCTION; SEASON; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BIRDS; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENVIRONMENT; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; PHOTOPERIOD; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84988360857     PISSN: 07487304     EISSN: 15524531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748730416655929     Document Type: Article

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