A polar system of intercontinental bird migration

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1625, 2007, Pages 2523-2530

  Alerstam, Thomas ^a   Bäckman, Johan ^a   Gudmundsson, Gudmundur A ^b   Hedenström, Anders ^a   Henningsson, Sara S ^a   Karlsson, Håkan ^a   Rosén, Mikael ^a   Strandberg, Roine ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ICELANDIC INSTITUTE OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Arctic birds; Arctic Ocean; Bird migration; Great circle orientation; Migratory connectivity

Indexed keywords

BERINGIA; CONNECTIVITY; EVOLUTION; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; MIGRATION; PARASITE; POLAR REGION; SEABIRD; WADER;

ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARTICLE; BIRD; FLYING; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELECOMMUNICATION; UNITED STATES;

ALASKA; ARCTIC OCEAN; BEAUFORT SEA; BERING STRAIT; EURASIA; MAGADAN [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA; UNITED STATES; WRANGEL ISLAND;

AVES; CATHARACTA; LARIDAE;

EID: 34848927901     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0633     Document Type: Article

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