Combining stable-isotope (δD) and band recovery data to improve probabilistic assignment of migratory birds to origin

Ecological Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1340-1351

  Van Wilgenburg, Steven L ^a   Hobson, Keith A ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Band recoveries; Bayes' rule; Deuterium; Feathers; Geographic origin; Hydrogen isotope ( D); Isoscapes; Migration; Migratory connectivity; Stable isotopes; White throated Sparrow; Zonotrichia albicollis

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; ISOTOPE;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BOREAL FOREST; CONNECTIVITY; DATA SET; DEUTERIUM; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ERROR ANALYSIS; FEATHER; GROWING SEASON; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MIGRATION; MIGRATORY SPECIES; MONITORING SYSTEM; PASSERINE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; INSTRUMENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SPARROW; TIME;

ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; DEMOGRAPHY; HYDROGEN; ISOTOPES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPARROWS; TIME FACTORS;

NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; ZONOTRICHIA ALBICOLLIS;

EID: 79958797560     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-2047.1     Document Type: Article

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