Water and Energy Limitations on Flight Duration in Small Migrating Birds
- 1 April 1992
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Auk
- Vol. 109 (2) , 268-276
- https://doi.org/10.2307/4088195
Abstract
We examined the physiological limitations to flight duration in small migrating birds with a computer-simulation model. Given preflight body mass, fatThis publication has 32 references indexed in Scilit:
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