Long-distance migration: Evolution and determinants

Oikos

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 247-260

  Alerstam, Thomas ^a   Hedenström, Anders ^a   Åkesson, Susanne ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; MIGRATION; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0344584412     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2003.12559.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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