Migratory herbivorous waterfowl track satellite-derived green wave index

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Shariatinajafabadi, Mitra ^a   Wang, Tiejun ^a   Skidmore, Andrew K ^a   Toxopeus, Albertus G ^a   Kölzsch, Andrea ^b,c   Nolet, Bart A ^c   Exo, Klaus Michael ^d   Griffin, Larry ^e   Stahl, Julia ^f   Cabot, David ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^d INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

^e WILDFOWL AND WETLANDS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^f SOVON DUTCH CENTRE FOR FIELD ORNITHOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^g Environmental Consultancy Services   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BARNACLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOOD QUALITY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GOOSE; GREENLAND; HERBIVORE; MALE; MIGRANT BIRD; NONHUMAN; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; REMOTE SENSING; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SATELLITE DERIVED GREEN WAVE INDEX; SPRING; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN; VEGETATION; ALTITUDE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; CATERING SERVICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HERBIVORY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASON; SPACE FLIGHT;

ANATIDAE;

ALTITUDE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIOMASS; FOOD SUPPLY; GEESE; GREENLAND; HERBIVORY; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; RUSSIA; SEASONS; SPACECRAFT; SVALBARD;

EID: 84907587035     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108331     Document Type: Article

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