Tracking dispersal in birds: Assessing the potential of elemental markers

Auk

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 500-511

  Donovan, Therese ^a   Buzas, Jeffrey ^b   Jones, Peter ^c   Gibbs, H Lisle ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b University of Vermont   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discriminant function; Dispersal; Eastern Bluebird; Element analysis; Sialia sialis; Spatial autocorrelation; Tachycineta bicolor; Tree Swallow

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FEATHER; NATAL DISPERSAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SONGBIRD;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; PASSERI; SIALIA SIALIS; TACHYCINETA BICOLOR;

EID: 33646591534     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1642/0004-8038(2006)123[500:TDIBAT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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