Searching for potential wintering and migration areas of a Danish Barn Swallow population in South Africa by correlating NDVI with survival estimates

Journal of Ornithology

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 245-253

  Szép, Tibor ^a   Møller, Anders Pape ^b   Piper, Steven ^c   Nuttall, Rick ^d   Szabó, Zoltán D ^e   Pap, Péter L ^e  

^a Department of Agricultural Sciences and Environmental Management   (Hungary)

^b Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive CNRS UMR 7103 UFR 927   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^d NATIONAL MUSEUM   (South Africa)

^e BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Normalised difference vegetation index (NDVI); Ringing; South Africa; Survival; Swallow; Wintering areas

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; CORRELATION; NDVI; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION MIGRATION; SURVIVAL; THEORETICAL STUDY;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

AVES; HIRUNDO; HIRUNDO RUSTICA;

EID: 33645778783     PISSN: 21937192     EISSN: 21937206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10336-006-0060-x     Document Type: Article

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