Factors influencing route choice by avian migrants: A dynamic programming model of Pacific brant migration

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 249, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 804-816

  Purcell, Jessica ^a   Brodin, Anders ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Avian migration; Brant; Branta bernicla nigricans; Dynamic programming; Migration strategy

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; MIGRATION; SIMULATION; STOCHASTICITY; THEORETICAL STUDY; WATERFOWL;

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BODY MASS; FLIGHT; FOWL; GOOSE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; LAGOON; MEXICO; MIGRANT BIRD; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SIMULATION; SPRING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STOCHASTIC MODEL; THEORETICAL STUDY; WIND;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; GEESE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

ALASKA; ALASKA PENINSULA; GULF OF ALASKA; IZEMBEK LAGOON; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

ANSER; AVES; BRANTA BERNICLA NIGRICANS;

EID: 36249006032     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2007.08.028     Document Type: Article

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