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Migration Trade-offs

Migration Trade-Offs is a theoretical construct in avian biology that describes the evolutionary compromise between the energetic and temporal demands of migration and the physiological requirements of molting, where timing and resource allocation to one process negatively impacts the efficiency or success of the other.

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2017–2026

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Costs of migration in free-flying songbirds

Martin Wikelski, Elisa M. Tarlow, Arlo Raim et al. · Nature · 2003 · 476 citations · Full text

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Optimal bird migration revisited

Thomas Alerstam · Journal für Ornithologie · 2011 · 420 citations · Full text

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Do Global Patterns of Habitat Use and Migration Strategies Co-Evolve with Relative Investments in Immunocompetence due to Spatial Variation in Parasite Pressure?

Theunis Piersma · Oikos · 1997 · 271 citations · Full text

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Effects of predation danger on migration strategies of sandpipers

David B. Lank, Robert W. Butler, John F. Ireland et al. · Oikos · 2003 · 212 citations

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Travel schedules to the high arctic: barnacle geese trade‐off the timing of migration with accumulation of fat deposits

Jouke Prop, Jeffrey M. Black, Paul Shimmings · Oikos · 2003 · 211 citations

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Authors

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  1. CG
    Christopher G. Guglielmo

    Western University, Canada

    4 publications · 335 citations

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  2. RW
    Robert W. Butler

    University of Leeds, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 401 citations

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  3. AH
    Anders Hedenström

    Lund University, Sweden

    3 publications · 150 citations

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  4. RC
    Ronald C. Ydenberg

    Simon Fraser University, Canada

    3 publications · 401 citations

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  5. JA
    José A. Alves

    University of Iceland, Iceland

    3 publications · 226 citations

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Institutions

132

  1. Western University

    London, Canada

    6 h-index

    8 publications

    427 citations

  2. Lund University

    Lund, Sweden

    6 h-index

    10 publications

    902 citations

  3. University of Groningen

    Groningen, The Netherlands

    5 h-index

    9 publications

    861 citations

  4. Simon Fraser University

    Burnaby, Canada

    4 h-index

    16 publications

    1K citations

  5. Institute of Avian Research

    Wilhelmshaven, Germany

    4 h-index

    10 publications

    667 citations

  6. Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

    Den Burg, The Netherlands

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    373 citations

  7. Max Planck Society

    Munich, Germany

    3 h-index

    11 publications

    248 citations

  8. United States Geological Survey

    Reston, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    91 citations

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  1. Journal of Animal Ecology

    7 publications · 498 citations

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  2. Oikos

    5 publications · 793 citations

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  3. Ecology

    4 publications · 314 citations

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  4. Journal of Avian Biology

    4 publications · 251 citations

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  5. Ibis

    4 publications · 159 citations

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