The importance of landscape context for songbirds on migration: Body mass gain is related to habitat cover

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 169-179

  Ktitorov, Pavel ^a,b   Bairlein, Franz ^a   Dubinin, Maxim ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

^b Zoological Institute   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Habitat cover; Landscape context; Mass gain; Refueling; Songbird migrants; Stopover

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BREEDING SEASON; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; MIGRATORY POPULATION; SONGBIRD; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STOPOVER;

AFRICA; EURASIA; EUROPE;

AVES; PASSERI; PHOENICURUS PHOENICURUS; PHYLLOSCOPUS; PHYLLOSCOPUS TROCHILUS; SALIX; SETOPHAGA;

EID: 38649129889     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-007-9177-4     Document Type: Article

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