Migration Routes and Staging Areas of Trans-Saharan Turtle Doves Appraised from Light-Level Geolocators

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Eraud, Cyril ^a   Rivière, Marcel ^b   Lormée, Hervé ^a   Fox, James W ^c   Ducamp, Jean Jacques ^d   Boutin, Jean Marie ^a  

^a OFFICE NATIONAL DE LA CHASSE ET DE LA FAUNE SAUVAGE   (France)

^b Maisonneuve ^*  (France)

^c Migrate Technology Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BREEDING; DOVE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STREPTOPELIA TURTUR;

AFRICA, NORTHERN; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; COLUMBIDAE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHY; SEASONS; SUNLIGHT;

AVES; STREPTOPELIA; STREPTOPELIA TURTUR;

EID: 84875469875     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059396     Document Type: Article

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