Is there a "migratory syndrome" common to all migrant birds?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1046, Issue , 2005, Pages 282-293

  Piersma, Theunis ^a,b,g   Pérez Tris, Javier ^c   Mouritsen, Henrik ^d   Bauchinger, Ulf ^e   Bairlein, Franz ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

^g Animal Ecology Group   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Behavioral syndrome; Bird migration; Coadapted trait complex; Comparative method; Evolution of migration; Exaptation; Life history; Phenotype; Trade off

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIRD; CONFERENCE PAPER; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREDATION; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 23744442394     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1343.026     Document Type: Conference Paper

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