Environmental conditions at arrival to the wintering grounds and during spring migration affect population dynamics of barn swallows Hirundo rustica breeding in Northern Italy

Population Ecology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 135-145

  Sicurella, Beatrice ^a   Musitelli, Federica ^a   Rubolini, Diego ^b   Saino, Nicola ^b   Ambrosini, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Information theory; NDVI; Stopover sites; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; LIFE CYCLE; MIGRATION; NDVI; PASSERINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOPOVER;

ITALY; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

AVES; HIRUNDO; HIRUNDO RUSTICA; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 84953637895     PISSN: 14383896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10144-015-0529-7     Document Type: Article

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