Local temperature fine-tunes the timing of spring migration in birds

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 293-304

  Tøttrup, Anders P ^a   Rainio, Kalle ^b   Coppack, Timothy ^c,d   Lehikoinen, Esa ^b   Rahbek, Carsten ^a   Thorup, Kasper ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

^d Institute of Applied Ecology Ltd   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENT; EUROPE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEASON; SPARROW; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; EUROPE; PHENOTYPE; SEASONS; SPARROWS; TEMPERATURE;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 77956282368     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icq028     Document Type: Conference Paper

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