Different Location Sampling Frequencies by Satellite Tags Yield Different Estimates of Migration Performance: Pooling Data Requires a Common Protocol

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Tanferna, Alessandro ^a   López Jiménez, Lidia ^a   Blas, Julio ^a   Hiraldo, Fernando ^a   Sergio, Fabrizio ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; DATA PROCESSING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MILVUS MIGRANS; POPULATION MIGRATION; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TELEMETRY; VELOCITY;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LINEAR MODELS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MILVUS; MILVUS MIGRANS; RAPTORES;

EID: 84869101724     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049659     Document Type: Article

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