Travelling on a budget: predictions and ecological evidence for bottlenecks in the annual cycle of long-distance migrants.

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Published in Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci on January 27, 2008

Authors

Deborah M Buehler1, Theunis Piersma

Author Affiliations

1: Animal Ecology Group, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, University of Groningen, PO Box 14, 9750 AA Haren, The Netherlands. d.m.buehler@rug.nl

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