Is there a connection between weather at departure sites, onset of migration and timing of soaring-bird autumn migration in Israel?

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 541-552

  Shamoun Baranes, Judy ^a   van Loon, Emiel ^a   Alon, Dan ^b   Alpert, Pinhas ^c   Yom Tov, Yoram ^c   Leshem, Yossi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b SPNI   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Accipiter brevipes; Aquila pomarina; Ciconia ciconia; Inverse modelling; Migration onset; Pernis apivorus; Phenology; Sea level pressure; Temperature; Threshold effect

Indexed keywords

AUTUMN; BIRD; CLIMATE EFFECT; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; PHENOLOGY; WEATHER;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

ACCIPITER BREVIPES; ACCIPITRIDAE; AQUILA POMARINA; AVES; CICONIA CICONIA; PERNIS APIVORUS;

EID: 33750326699     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2006.00261.x     Document Type: Article

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