Modelling the progression of bird migration with conditional autoregressive models applied to ringing data

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Ambrosini, Roberto ^a   Borgoni, Riccardo ^a   Rubolini, Diego ^b   Sicurella, Beatrice ^a   Fiedler, Wolfgang ^c   Bairlein, Franz ^d   Baillie, Stephen R ^e   Robinson, Robert A ^e   Clark, Jacquie A ^e   Spina, Fernando ^f   Saino, Nicola ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

^e THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

^f INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND RESEARCH ISPRA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BARN SWALLOW; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CONDITIONAL AUTOREGRESSIVE MODEL; DATA BASE; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LITERATURE; NONHUMAN; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREDICTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWALLOW (BIRD);

AFRICA, NORTHERN; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; EUROPE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SEASONS; SWALLOWS;

EID: 84904649165     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0102440     Document Type: Article

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