Climate change leads to decreasing bird migration distances

Global Change Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1859-1865

  Visser, Marcel E ^a   Perdeck, Albert C ^a   van Balen, Johan H ^a   Both, Christiaan ^b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bird migration; Bird ringing; Climate change

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BREEDING SEASON; BREEDING SITE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; GLOBAL WARMING; MIGRATION; OVERWINTERING; RINGING; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES;

EID: 67650112695     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01865.x     Document Type: Article

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