Variation in the stopover duration of Reed Warblers Acrocephalus scirpaceus in Morocco: Effects of season, age and site

Ibis

Volumn 145, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 650-656

  Rguibi Idrissi, Hamid ^a,b   Julliard, Romain ^c   Bairlein, Franz ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

^b Institut Scientifique   (Morocco)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCE; BODY MASS; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; SITE EFFECT; STOPOVER;

MOROCCO;

ACROCEPHALUS SCIRPACEUS; PHRAGMITES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0142248249     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1474-919X.2003.00208.x     Document Type: Article

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