Why Seychelles Warblers fail to recolonize nearby islands: Unwilling or unable to fly there?

Ibis

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 298-302

  Komdeur, Jan ^a,b   Piersma, Theunis ^a,c   Kraaijeveld, Ken ^a,b   Kraaijeveld Smit, Femmie ^a,b   Richardson, David S ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPOTHESIS TESTING; ISLAND; MORPHOLOGY; PASSERINE; RARE SPECIES;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; SEYCHELLES;

ACROCEPHALUS; ACROCEPHALUS AUSTRALIS; ACROCEPHALUS BAETICATUS; ACROCEPHALUS SCIRPACEUS; ACROCEPHALUS SECHELLENSIS; AVES; PASSERIFORMES; PHRAGMITES;

EID: 2042432048     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1474-919X.2004.00255.x     Document Type: Article

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