Numbers, body mass and fat scores of three Palearctic migrants at a constant effort mist netting site in Ivory Coast, West Africa

Ardea

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 479-487

  Salewski, Volker ^a,c   Falk, Karl H ^a   Bairlein, Franz ^a   Leisler, Bernd ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOR   (Germany)

^c NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Constant effort mist netting; Ficedula hypoleuca; Hippolais polyglotta; Ivory Coast; Phylloscopus trochilus

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; MIGRATION; PASSERINE; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION SIZE;

COTE D'IVOIRE;

AVES; FICEDULA; FICEDULA HYPOLEUCA; HIPPOLAIS; HIPPOLAIS POLYGLOTTA; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLLOSCOPUS; PHYLLOSCOPUS TROCHILUS; SALIX; TROCHILUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038335514     PISSN: 03732266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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