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Extreme endurance flights by landbirds crossing the Pacific Ocean: ecological corridor rather than barrier?

Mountain ranges, deserts, ice fields and oceans generally act as barriers to the movement of land-dependent animals, often profoundly shaping migration routes. We used satellite telemetry to track the southward flights of bar-tailed godwits (Limosa lapponica baueri), shorebirds whose breeding and no...

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Autores principales: Gill, Robert E., Tibbitts, T. Lee, Douglas, David C., Handel, Colleen M., Mulcahy, Daniel M., Gottschalck, Jon C., Warnock, Nils, McCaffery, Brian J., Battley, Philip F., Piersma, Theunis
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2664343/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18974033
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2008.1142