The onset of spring and timing of migration in two arctic nesting goose populations: The pink-footed goose Anser bachyrhynchus and the barnacle goose Branta leucopsis

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 691-703

  Tombre, Ingunn M ^a   Høgda, Kjell A ^b   Madsen, Jesper ^c   Griffin, Larry R ^d   Kuijken, Eckhart ^e,f   Shimmings, Paul ^g   Rees, Eileen ^d   Verscheure, Christine ^h  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b NORUT IT   (Norway)

^c NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^d WILDFOWL AND WETLANDS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

^f GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^g Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust ^*  (Norway)

^h Goose Neckring Database Flanders   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; MIGRATION; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NDVI; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; WATERFOWL;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANSER; ANSER BRACHYRHYNCHUS; BRANTA LEUCOPSIS; THORACICA;

EID: 56049105429     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: 1600048X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2008.04440.x     Document Type: Article

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