Identifying the African wintering grounds of hybrid flycatchers using a multi-isotope (δ2H, δ13C, δ 15N) assignment approach

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Veen, Thor ^a,b   Hjernquist, Mårten B ^c   Van Wilgenburg, Steven L ^d   Hobson, Keith A ^d   Folmer, Eelke ^e   Font, Laura ^f   Klaassen, Marcel ^g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^e ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^f VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^g NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^h DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; HYDROGEN; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; STABLE ISOTOPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARBON; DEUTERIUM; NITROGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; EQUATORIAL GUINEA; FEATHER; FEMALE; FICEDULA ALBICOLLIS; FICEDULA HYPOLEUCA; FLYCATCHER; GABON; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; MALE; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NAMIBIA; NONHUMAN; POPULATION MIGRATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STABLE CARBON ISOTOPE RATIO; STABLE HYDROGEN ISOTOPE RATIO; STABLE NITROGEN ISOTOPE RATIO; WINTER; ZAMBIA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; SEASON; SONGBIRD;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CARBON ISOTOPES; DEUTERIUM; FEATHERS; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; SEASONS; SONGBIRDS;

EID: 84901340671     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0098075     Document Type: Article

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