Are long-distance migrants constrained in their evolutionary response to environmental change? Causes of variation in the timing of autumn migration in a blackcap (S. atricapilla) and two garden warbler (Sylvia borin) populations

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1046, Issue , 2005, Pages 228-241

  Pulido, Francisco ^a,b   Widmer, Michael ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c Orniplan AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Canalization; Climate change; Heritability; Zugunruhe

Indexed keywords

AUTUMN; BIRD; BREEDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POPULATION MIGRATION; SYLVIA ATRICAPILLA; SYLVIA BORIN;

AVES; SYLVIA ATRICAPILLA; SYLVIA BORIN;

EID: 23744513695     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1343.020     Document Type: Conference Paper

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