Strategies for the transition to breeding in time-selected bird migration

Ardea

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 347-357

  Alerstam, Thomas ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bird migration breeding transition; Capital resource transport; Sprint migration

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SITE; DIURNAL ACTIVITY; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; MIGRATORY POPULATION; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; RAPTOR; REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SATELLITE DATA;

AVES; PANDION; PANDION HALIAETUS;

EID: 33645832693     PISSN: 03732266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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