Optimal map projections for analysing long-distance migration routes

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 597-605

  Gudmundsson, Gudmundur A ^a   Alerstam, Thomas ^b  

^a ICELANDIC INSTITUTE OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Iceland)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; MIGRATION;

MAPPING; MIGRATION;

AVES;

EID: 0032439609     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3677180     Document Type: Conference Paper

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