Landscape movements of migratory birds and bats reveal an expanded scale of stopover

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Taylor, Philip D ^a,b   Mackenzie, Stuart A ^b,c   Thurber, Bethany G ^b,c   Calvert, Anna M ^a,b   Mills, Alex M ^a,b   McGuire, Liam P ^c   Guglielmo, Christopher G ^c  

^a ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Bird Studies Canada ^*  (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEGOLIUS ACADICUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BAT; BIRD; CATHARUS USTULATUS; CATHRARUS GUTTATUS; DENDROICA CAERULESCENS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT SELECTION; LAKE; LASIONYCTERIS NOCTIVAGANS; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NONHUMAN; OWL; POPULATION MIGRATION; SPARROW; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPRING; TELEMETRY; VERTEBRATE; ZONOTRICHIA ALBICOLLIS; ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRYS; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY;

AVES; STRIGIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CHIROPTERA;

EID: 80455174318     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027054     Document Type: Article

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