Do Arctic breeding geese track or overtake a green wave during spring migration?

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Si, Yali ^a,b   Xin, Qinchuan ^a   De Boer, Willem F ^c   Gong, Peng ^a   Ydenberg, Ronald C ^d   Prins, Herbert H T ^c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARCTIC; BIOMASS; BREEDING; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GOOSE; HERBIVORY; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; POPULATION MIGRATION; REPRODUCTION; SEASON; TIME FACTOR;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; BIOMASS; BREEDING; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GEESE; HERBIVORY; MALE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANTS; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84930001486     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep08749     Document Type: Article

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