Data from: Forecasting spring from afar? Timing of migration and predictability of phenology along different migration routes of an avian herbivore [Svalbard data] ...

• Main Author: Griffin, Larry
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Movebank Data Repository 2014
• Subjects: Branta leucopsis; animal migration; animal tracking; Argos; barnacle goose; capital breeding; climatic barrier; green wave hypothesis; migration flyway; onset of spring; Arctic; Barents Sea; Greenland; Svalbard; Barnacle goose
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.5k6b1364; https://www.datarepository.movebank.org/handle/10255/move.377

1. Herbivorous birds are hypothesized to migrate in spring along a seasonal gradient of plant profitability towards their breeding grounds (green wave hypothesis). For Arctic-breeding species in particular, following highly profitable food is important, so that they can replenish resources along the...