When and where to fuel before crossing the Sahara desert - Extended stopover and migratory fuelling in first-year garden warblers Sylvia borin

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 133-138

  Fransson, Thord ^a   Barboutis, Christos ^b   Mellroth, Roger ^c   Akriotis, Triantaphyllos ^d  

^a SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c University of the Aegean ^*  (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; BODY MASS; DESERT; FRUIT; MIGRATORY SPECIES; SONGBIRD; STOPOVER; TRAPPING;

AFRICA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SAHARA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

AVES; FICUS (ANGIOSPERM); PASSERIFORMES; SYLVIA BORIN;

EID: 40349108879     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: 1600048X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0908-8857.2008.04361.x     Document Type: Article

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