Flexible seasonal timing and migratory behavior: Results from stonechat breeding programs

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1046, Issue , 2005, Pages 216-227

  Helm, Barbara ^a   Gwinner, Eberhard ^a   Trost, Lisa ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breeding; Flexible timing; Migration; Molt; Photoperiod; Plasticity; Stonechat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIRD; BREEDING; CONFERENCE PAPER; HATCHING; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PLASTICITY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; STONECHAT;

SAXICOLA TORQUATA MAURA;

EID: 23744497053     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1343.019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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