The cost of migration: Spoonbills suffer higher mortality during trans-Saharan spring migrations only

Biology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Lok, Tamar ^a,b   Overdijk, Otto ^c   Piersma, Theunis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c Werkgroep Lepelaar   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Differential migration; Evolution of migration; Long distance migration; Mark recapture analysis; Sahara desert; Seasonal survival

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MIGRATION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING (SEASON); SURVIVAL; WADER;

FRANCE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; MAURITANIA; NETHERLANDS; SAHARA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PLATALEA LEUCORODIA; PLATALEA LEUCORODIA LEUCORODIA; THRESKIORNITHIDAE;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; BIRD; EUROPE; MAURITANIA; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEASON;

AFRICA, NORTHERN; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; EUROPE; MAURITANIA; MORTALITY; SEASONS;

EID: 84921328728     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2014.0944     Document Type: Article

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