Individual inter-annual nest-site relocation behaviour drives dynamics of a recently established Barnacle Goose Branta leucopsis colony in sub-arctic Russia

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Volumn 153, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 622-626

  Karagicheva, Julia ^a   Rakhimberdiev, Eldar ^a,b   Dobrynin, Dmitry ^c   Saveliev, Anatoly ^d   Rozenfeld, Sofia ^c   Pokrovskaya, Olga ^c   Stahl, Julia ^e   Prop, Jouke ^f   Litvin, Konstantin ^c  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^c SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

^d KAZAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Breeding dispersal; Coloniality; Conspecific attraction; Philopatry

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BREEDING POPULATION; COLONY; CONSPECIFIC; DECISION MAKING; DISPERSAL; NEST SITE; PHILOPATRY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUBARCTIC REGION; WATERFOWL;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

ANSER; AVES; BRANTA LEUCOPSIS; THORACICA;

EID: 79958804861     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2011.01123.x     Document Type: Article

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