Perspective: What is the Arctic and who are Arctic waders?
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Pages
169 – 171
Published
26 December 17
Authors
Hans Meltofte
DOI
10.18194/ws.00085
Correspondence
Hans Meltofte
Senior adviser emeritus, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Denmark
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The Arctic is the breeding area for many of the waders that populate temperate and tropical wetlands during the non-breeding season. But even in the scientific literature there is much confusion as to what the Arctic actually covers. Hans Meltofte shines his light on it in this issue’s Perspective.