Multiple Weather Factors Affect Apparent Survival of European Passerine Birds

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Salewski, Volker ^a,c   Hochachka, Wesley M ^b   Fiedler, Wolfgang ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; LONG DISTANCE MIGRANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDICTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHORT DISTANCE MIGRANT; SPAIN; SURVIVAL RATE; WEATHER; WINTER;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BREEDING; EUROPE; MALE; PASSERIFORMES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 84875989117     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059110     Document Type: Article

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