Atmospheric conditions facilitate mass migration events across the North Sea

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 691-704

  Shamoun Baranes, Judy ^a   van Gasteren, Hans ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Royal Netherlands Air Force ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Back trajectory model; Bird; Drift; Lagrangian approach; Migration; Partial compensation; Radar; Trajectory analysis; Wind

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; FLIGHT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MASS TRANSPORT; MIGRATION; MIGRATION ROUTE; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; RADAR; SEASONALITY; TRAJECTORY; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; SCANDINAVIA;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 79952738121     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.01.003     Document Type: Article

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