What decision rules might pink-footed geese use to depart on migration? An individual-based model

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 560-569

  Duriez, Olivier ^a,d   Bauer, Silke ^a   Destin, Anne ^a   Madsen, Jesper ^b   Nolet, Bart A ^a   Stillman, Richard A ^c   Klaassen, Marcel ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^c BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Anser brachyrhynchus; Arctic geese; Body stores; Green wave hypothesis; Internal clock; Migration cues; Plant phenology

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL DATE; BIOENERGETICS; BREEDING SITE; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FITNESS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; MIGRATION; PHENOLOGY; STOPOVER; WATERFOWL;

ARCTIC; DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

ANSER; ANSER BRACHYRHYNCHUS; AVES;

EID: 66149122704     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arp032     Document Type: Article

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