Estimating origins of three species of Neotropical migrant songbirds at a Gulf coast stopover site: Combining stable isotope and GIS tools

Condor

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 256-267

  Hobson, Keith A ^a   Van Wilgenburg, Steve ^a   Wassenaar, Leonard I ^a   Moore, Frank ^b   Farrington, Jeffrey ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Deuterium; Geographic information systems; Migratory connectivity; Stable isotopes; Stopover

Indexed keywords

AVES; CATHARUS USTULATUS; DUMETELLA CAROLINENSIS; HYLOCICHLA; HYLOCICHLA MUSTELINA; PASSERI; TURDIDAE;

EID: 34248670419     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/0010-5422(2007)109[256:EOOTSO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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