Migratory movements of waterfowl in Central Asia and avian influenza emergence: Sporadic transmission of H5N1 from east to west

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Volumn 153, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 279-292

  Iverson, Samuel A ^a   Gavrilov, Andrei ^b   Katzner, Todd E ^c   Takekawa, John Y ^a   Miller, Tricia A ^d   Hagemeijer, Ward ^e   Mundkur, Taej ^e   Sivananinthaperumal, Balachandran ^f   Demattos, Carlos C ^g   Ahmed, Lu'Ay S ^h   Newman, Scott H ⁱ  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Institute of Zoology Almaty Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan   (Kazakhstan)

^c WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

^e WETLANDS INTERNATIONAL   (Netherlands)

^f BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY   (India)

^g US Naval Medical Research Unit No 3 Egypt   (Egypt)

^h Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency   (Egypt)

ⁱ FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anas; Bird migration; Highly pathogenic avian influenza; Kazakhstan; Ring recovery; Risk mapping; Satellite telemetry; Tadorna

Indexed keywords

AVIAN INFLUENZA; BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SITE; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HABITAT USE; MIGRATION ROUTE; MOLT; PATHOGEN; POPULATION MIGRATION; TELEMETRY; WATERFOWL;

BLACK SEA; CASPIAN SEA; CHINA; KAZAKHSTAN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SIBERIA;

ANAS; ANATIDAE; AVES; TADORNA;

EID: 79952715169     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2010.01095.x     Document Type: Article

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