A quantitative measure of migratory connectivity

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 257, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 203-211

  Ambrosini, Roberto ^a   Møller, Anders Pape ^b   Saino, Nicola ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Barn swallow; Hirundo rustica; k Means clustering; Mantel test; Migration

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BREEDING POPULATION; CONNECTIVITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DATA SET; MIGRATION; PALEARCTIC REGION; PASSERINE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BREEDING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; SWALLOWS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; HIRUNDO; HIRUNDO RUSTICA;

EID: 60449110691     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.11.019     Document Type: Article

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