CHERNOBYL AS A POPULATION SINK FOR BARN SWALLOWS: TRACKING DISPERSAL USING STABLE-ISOTOPE PROFILES

• Title: CHERNOBYL AS A POPULATION SINK FOR BARN SWALLOWS: TRACKING DISPERSAL USING STABLE-ISOTOPE PROFILES

Author: A. P. MøLLER, K. A. HOBSON, T. A. MOUSSEAU,AND A. M. PEKLO

Reference: Ecological Applications, 16(5), 2006, pp. 1696–1705

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Keywords: Barn Swallows; Chernobyl, Ukraine; correlation of stable-isotope profiles; Hirundo rustica; sinks; sources; variance in stable-isotope profiles

Abstract: Stable-isotope profiles of feathers can reveal the location or habitat used by individual birds during the molting period. Heterogeneity in isotope profiles will reflect heterogeneity in molt locations, but also heterogeneity in breeding locations, because spatial heterogeneity in molt locations will be congruent with spatial heterogeneity in breeding locations in species with high connectivity between breeding and molting sites.

URL: http://cricket.biol.sc.edu/chernobyl/papers/moller-et-al-chernobyl-isotopes-2007.pdf

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