Rapid advances in the timing of the spring passage migration through Israel of the steppe eagle aquila nipalensis

Climate Research

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 217-222

  Zduniak, Piotr ^a   Yosef, Reuven ^b   Sparks, Tim H ^c   Smit, Henk ^b   Tryjanowski, Piotr ^c  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b Ben Gurion University of the Negev Eilat Campus   (Israel)

^c POZNA UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Indian Ocean Dipole; Israel; Passage migration; Population size; Predation; Temperature; Trends

Indexed keywords

INDIAN OCEAN DIPOLE; ISRAEL; PASSAGE MIGRATION; POPULATION SIZES; PREDATION; TRENDS;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

CORRELATION; DATA INTERPRETATION; MIGRATION ROUTE; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION SIZE; PREDATION; RAPTOR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPRING (SEASON); TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

EILAT; INDIAN OCEAN; ISRAEL; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

ACCIPITRIDAE; AQUILA NIPALENSIS; RAPTORES;

EID: 77957747903     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr00900     Document Type: Article

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