Grand challenges in migration biology

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 261-279

  Bowlin, Melissa S ^a   Bisson, Isabelle Anne ^b   Shamoun Baranes, Judy ^c   Reichard, Jonathan D ^d   Sapir, Nir ^e   Marra, Peter P ^a   Kunz, Thomas H ^d   Wilcove, David S ^f   Hedenström, Anders ^a   Guglielmo, Christopher G ^g   Åkesson, Susanne ^a   Ramenofsky, Marilyn ^h   Wikelski, Martin ⁱ  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d Boston University   (United States)

^e HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1093/icb/icq013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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