Water management in nectar-feeding birds.

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• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  American Journal of Physiology. Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

• Publication date

  2006-09-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1152/AJPREGU.00288.2006PMID 16675635
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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