Individual improvements and selective mortality shape lifelong migratory performance

Nature

Volumn 515, Issue 7527, 2014, Pages 410-413

  Sergio, Fabrizio ^a   Tanferna, Alessandro ^a   De Stephanis, Renaud ^a   Jiménez, Lidia López ^a   Blas, Julio ^a   Tavecchia, Giacomo ^b   Preatoni, Damiano ^c   Hiraldo, Fernando ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GPS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; MORTALITY; RAPTOR; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORECASTING; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INBREEDING; LIFE HISTORY; LONGEVITY; MIGRANT; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; REMOTE SENSING; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAVEL; AFRICA; AGE; AGING; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; RAPTOR; REPRODUCTION; SPAIN; TIME; WIND;

AFRICA; AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; RAPTORS; REPRODUCTION; SPAIN; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; WIND;

EID: 84911462946     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13696     Document Type: Article

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