Prolonged stopover duration characterises migration strategy and constraints of a long-distance migrant songbird

Animal Migration

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 47-62

  Arlt, Debora ^a   Olsson, Peter ^b   Fox, James W ^c   Low, Matthew ^a   Part, Tomas ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b Migrate Technology Ltd ^*  (Sweden)

^c Migrate Technology Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

annual cycle; geolocator; light geolocation; migration schedule; migratory connectivity; Oenanthe oenanthe; stop over; temporary residency; time constraint; wintering area

Indexed keywords

EID: 84951018791     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20848838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/ami-2015-0002     Document Type: Article

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