Impacts of a global climate cycle on population dynamics of a migratory songbird

Science

Volumn 288, Issue 5473, 2000, Pages 2040-2043

  Sillett, T Scott ^a   Holmes, Richard T ^a   Sherry, Thomas W ^b  

^a Dartmouth College ^*  (United States)

^b Tulane University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SONG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; FERTILITY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPICS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CLIMATE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; FOOD; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; SONGBIRDS; WEATHER;

ANIMALIA; AVES; DENDROICA CAERULESCENS; PASSERI;

EID: 0034674741     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5473.2040     Document Type: Article

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