Overtaking on migration: Does longer distance migration always incur a penalty?

Oikos

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 464-470

  Alves, José A ^a   Gunnarsson, Tómas G ^b,c   Potts, Peter M ^d   Gélinaud, Guillaume ^c   Sutherland, William J ^e   Gill, Jennifer A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c Gunnarsholt ^*  (France)

^d Farlington Ringing Group   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SITE; DATA SET; FITNESS; LATITUDE; MIGRATION; POPULATION MODELING; RANGE EXPANSION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; WADER;

ICELAND;

AVES; LIMOSA LIMOSA; LIMOSA LIMOSA ISLANDICA;

EID: 84857657769     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19678.x     Document Type: Article

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