Continental-scale radar monitoring of the aerial movements of animals

Movement Ecology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Shamoun Baranes, Judy ^a   Alves, Jose A ^b,c   Bauer, Silke ^d   Dokter, Adriaan M ^a,e   Hüppop, Ommo ^f   Koistinen, Jarmo ^g   Leijnse, Hidde ^h   Liechti, Felix ^d   Gasteren, Hans van ^a,i   Chapman, Jason W ^j,k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^d SWISS ORNITHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^f INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

^g FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^h ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

ⁱ Air Force Command   (Netherlands)

^j ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Aeroecology; Animal movement; Birds; Conservation; Europe; Insects; Migration; Radar; Research network; Weather

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922642538     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20513933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2051-3933-2-9     Document Type: Note

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