Tracking migratory songbirds: Accuracy of light-level loggers (geolocators) in forest habitats

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 47-52

  Fudickar, Adam M ^a   Wikelski, Martin ^a   Partecke, Jesko ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Annual movements; Conservation; Forest habitat; Life history; Technologies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867429869     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00136.x     Document Type: Article

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