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Morphological and digestive adjustments buffer performance: How staging shorebirds cope with severe food declines.
Article in Ecology and evolution, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- The Influence of Migration Timing and Local Conditions on Reproductive Timing in Arctic-Breeding Birds.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Bill Length of Non-breeding Shorebirds Influences the Water Depth Preferences for Foraging in the West Coast of India.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Individuals of a group-living shorebird show smaller home range overlap when food availability is low.Movement ecology · 2023Article
- Morphological characteristics influence the spatial mixing patterns of shorebirds at Shengjin Lake.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Breeding stage and tissue isotopic consistency suggests colony-level flexibility in niche breadth of an Arctic marine bird.Oecologia · 2022Article
- Influences of submerged plant collapse on diet composition, breadth, and overlap among four crane species at Poyang Lake, China.Frontiers in zoology · 2021Article
- Brain mass explains prey size selection better than beak, gizzard and body size in a benthivorous duck species.PloS one · 2021Article
- Flexible Foraging Response of Wintering Hooded Cranes (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2020Article
- Morphological and digestive adjustments buffer performance: How staging shorebirds cope with severe food declines.Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
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11 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
Organisms cope with environmental stressors by behavioral, morphological, and physiological adjustments. Documentation of such adjustments in the wild provides information on the response space in nature and the extent to which behavioral and bodily adjustments lead to appropriate performance effects. Here we studied the morphological and digestive adjustments in a staging population of migrating Great Knots
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