Should I stay or should I go? Testing optimality models of stopover decisions in migrating birds

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 280-286

  Weber, Thomas P ^a   Fransson, Thord ^b,c   Houston, Alasdair I ^d  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fuel deposition; Fuel loads; Luscinia svecica; Selasphorus rufus; Sylvia communis

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; MIGRATION; STOPOVER;

EID: 0032862720     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002650050621     Document Type: Article

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