Advances in linking wintering migrant birds to their breeding-ground origins using combined analyses of genetic and stable isotope markers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Chabot, Amy A ^a   Hobson, Keith A ^b   van Wilgenburg, Steven L ^b   McQuat, Gregory J ^a   Lougheed, Stephen C ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIRD; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEATHER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; LANIUS LUDOVICIANUS; MIGRANT BIRD; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION PRODUCTIVITY; WINTER;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; BREEDING; ISOTOPES; SEASONS;

EID: 84865173762     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043627     Document Type: Article

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