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Differential contributions of endogenous and exogenous nutrients to egg components in wild Baltic Co...

Differential contributions of endogenous and exogenous nutrients to egg components in wild Baltic Co...

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Differential contributions of endogenous and exogenous nutrients to egg components in wild Baltic Common Eiders (Somateria mollissima): A test of alternative stable isotope approaches

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Differential contributions of endogenous and exogenous nutrients to egg components in wild Baltic Common Eiders (Somateria mollissima): A test of alternative stable isotope approaches

Publisher

Waco: The American Ornithologists' Union

Journal title

The Auk, 2015-07, Vol.132 (3), p.624-633

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English

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Waco: The American Ornithologists' Union

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Contents

The relative importance of nutrients derived from feeding on breeding vs. nonbreeding grounds to the formation of eggs is crucial for predicting how the breeding success of migrating birds responds to changes in food availability during any part of their annual cycle. Eiders have been considered a classical capital breeder, but this assumption has...

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Differential contributions of endogenous and exogenous nutrients to egg components in wild Baltic Common Eiders (Somateria mollissima): A test of alternative stable isotope approaches

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1699520892

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1699520892

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ISSN

0004-8038,1938-4254

E-ISSN

1938-4254,2732-4613

DOI

10.1642/AUK-14-294.1

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