The trans-Himalayan flights of bar-headed geese (Anser indicus)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 9516-9519

  Hawkes, Lucy A ^a   Balachandran, Sivananinthaperumal ^b   Batbayar, Nyambayar ^c   Butler, Patrick J ^d   Frappell, Peter B ^e   Milsom, William K ^f   Tseveenmyadag, Natsagdorj ^c   Newman, Scott H ^g   Scott, Graham R ^f   Sathiyaselvam, Ponnusamy ^b   Takekawa, John Y ^h   Wikelski, Martin ⁱ   Bishop, Charles M ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY   (India)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Mongolia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^g FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

^h U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

ⁱ MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climbing flight; Exercise physiology; High altitude; Satellite tracking; Vertebrate migration

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC CAPACITY; ALTITUDE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANSER INDICUS; ARTICLE; CLIMBING; FLYING; GOOSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA LEVEL; WIND; WINTER;

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GEESE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS; WEATHER;

ANSER; ANSER INDICUS; AVES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79959327365     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1017295108     Document Type: Article

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