Integrating meteorology into research on migration

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 280-292

  Shamoun Baranes, Judy ^a   Bouten, Willem ^a   Van Loon, E Emiel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENT; METEOROLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; RESEARCH; SEASON;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; ENVIRONMENT; METEOROLOGY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RESEARCH; SEASONS;

ANIMALIA; SCOLOPACIDAE;

EID: 77956295319     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icq011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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