The Influence of Body Condition on the Stopover Ecology of Least Sandpipers in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley during Fall Migration

Many shorebirds are long-distance migrants and depend on the energy gained at stopover sites to complete migration. Competing hypotheses have described strategies used by migrating birds; the energy-selection hypothesis predicts that shorebirds attempt to maximize energy gained at stopover sites, wh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sarah E. Lehnen, David G. Krementz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2007-12-01
Series:Avian Conservation and Ecology
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Online Access:http://www.ace-eco.org/vol2/iss2/art9/