Weather-mediated natural selection on arrival time in cliff swallows (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota)

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 339-345

  Brown, Charles R ^a   Brown, Mary Bomberger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Life history; Mortality; Nebraska; Seasonality; Survival

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL DATE; CLIMATE EFFECT; EXTREME EVENT; MASS MORTALITY; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; NATURAL SELECTION;

UNITED STATES;

PETROCHELIDON PYRRHONOTA;

EID: 0034106976     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002650050674     Document Type: Article

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