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Winter body mass and over-ocean flocking as components of danger management by Pacific dunlins

BACKGROUND: We compared records of the body mass and roosting behavior of Pacific dunlins (Calidris alpina pacifica) wintering on the Fraser River estuary in southwest British Columbia between the 1970s and the 1990s. 'Over-ocean flocking' is a relatively safe but energetically-expensive a...

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Autores principales: Ydenberg, Ronald C, Dekker, Dick, Kaiser, Gary, Shepherd, Philippa CF, Ogden, Lesley Evans, Rickards, Karen, Lank, David B
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2823609/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20092617
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6785-10-1