Flight by night or day? Optimal daily timing of bird migration

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 258, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 530-536

  Alerstam, Thomas ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Diurnal migration; Fly and forage migration; Nocturnal migration; Optimal migration; Travel schedules

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; BIRD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIEL MIGRATION; DIURNAL VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; STOPOVER; TEMPORAL PERIOD;

ARTICLE; BIRD; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DIURNAL ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLYING; FORAGING; MIGRATION; NOCTURNAL ANIMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 67349203825     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.01.020     Document Type: Article

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