Surfing on a green wave - How plant growth drives spring migration in the Barnacle Goose Branta leucopsis

Ardea

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 567-577

  Van Der Graaf, Sandra ^a   Stahl, Julia ^a,b   Klimkowska, Agata ^a   Bakker, Jan P ^a   Drent, Rudolf H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arctic breeding; Forage quality; Nutrient intake; Plant biomass; Spring staging; Stopover sites

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOMASS; BREEDING SITE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOOD QUALITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH RATE; HATCHING; HERBIVORE; MIGRATION DETERMINANT; MIGRATION ROUTE; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; MOLT; STOPOVER; WATERFOWL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC REGION; EURASIA; NORTH SEA; WADDEN SEA;

ANATIDAE; ANSER; AVES; BRANTA LEUCOPSIS; THORACICA;

EID: 33645828764     PISSN: 03732266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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