Animal migration: Linking models and data beyond taxonomic limits

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 433-435

  Bauer, Silke ^a,b   Barta, Zoltan ^c   Ens, Bruno J ^a,d   Hays, Graeme C ^e   McNamara, John M ^f   Klaassen, Marcel ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b SWISS ORNITHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^d SOVON DUTCH CENTRE FOR FIELD ORNITHOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Currencies of migration; Evolution of migration; Graphical user interface migration models; Migration strategies; Predictability; Tracking of migrants

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MIGRATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMPIRICISM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; MIGRATION; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXONOMY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; LEIDEN; NETHERLANDS; SOUTH HOLLAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 67749132665     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0324     Document Type: Conference Paper

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