Do long-distance migrants use temperature variations along the migration route in Europe to adjust the timing of their spring arrival?

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 16, Issue SUPPL.B, 2011, Pages 35-48

  Halkka, Antti ^a   Lehikoinen, Aleksi ^b   Velmala, William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

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