Storms drive altitudinal migration in a tropical bird
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Storms drive altitudinal migration in a tropical bird.
Although migration is a widespread and taxonomically diverse behaviour, the ecological factors shaping migratory behaviour are poorly understood. Like other montane taxa, many birds migrate along elevational gradients in the tropics. Forty years ago, Alexander Skutch postulated that severe storms could drive birds to migrate downhill. Here, we articulate a novel mechanism that could link storms...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0344