Travels and traditions: Long-distance dispersal in the Barnacle Goose Branta leucopsis based on individual case histories

Ardea

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 421-432

  Van Der Jeugd, Henk P ^a,b   Litvin, Konstantin Y ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b SOVON DUTCH CENTRE FOR FIELD ORNITHOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c Bird Ringing Centre   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Body size; Branta leucopsis; Dispersal; Gene flow; Individual; Personality

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISPERSAL; GENE FLOW; HATCHING; JUVENILE; WATERFOWL;

ARCTIC; EURASIA; EUROPE; GOTLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN; SWEDEN;

ANSER; AVES; BRANTA LEUCOPSIS; THORACICA;

EID: 34248162980     PISSN: 03732266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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