Assessing the role of multiple environmental factors on eurasian spoonbill departure decisions from stopover sites

Ardea

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-12

  Navedo, Juan G ^a,d   Masero, José A ^a   Overdijk, Otto ^b   Orizaola, Germán ^c   Sánchez Guzmán, Juan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^b Working Group Spoonbills International   (Netherlands)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Departure decisions; Ecological barriers; Migratory strategies; Spoonbill; Tides; Waterbirds; Wind assistance

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MIGRATION ROUTE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STOPOVER; WADER; WIND PROFILE;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

AVES; PLATALEA; PLATALEA LEUCORODIA; THRESKIORNITHIDAE;

EID: 77951796029     PISSN: 03732266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5253/078.098.0102     Document Type: Article

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