Bird migration - An energy-based analysis of costs and benefits

IMA Journal of Mathemathics Applied in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 65-85

  Stöcker, Sabine ^a   Weihs, Daniel ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Migration strategy; Population dynamics of migrating birds

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; ENERGY COST; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MIGRATION; MOTIVATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SURVIVAL;

AVES; CHLAMYDOTIS; CHLAMYDOTIS UNDULATA MACQUEENII; PASSERIFORMES; RAPTORES; SAXICOLA TORQUATA;

BIRDS; BUDGET CONTROL; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FOOD SUPPLY; POPULATION STATISTICS;

BIRD MIGRATION; COST AND BENEFITS; DYNAMIC STRATEGIES; ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; ENERGY; ENERGY BUDGETS; ENERGY-BASED; MIGRATING BIRDS; MIGRATION STRATEGY; POPULATION DYNAMIC OF MIGRATING BIRD;

POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 0344074470     PISSN: 02650746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/imammb/15.1.65     Document Type: Article

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