Moulting and wintering grounds of Marsh Warblers Acrocephalus palustris: evidence from stable isotopes and ring recoveries

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3161/173484714X687073" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.3161/173484714X687073</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3161/173484714X687073" target="_blank" >10.3161/173484714X687073</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Moulting and wintering grounds of Marsh Warblers Acrocephalus palustris: evidence from stable isotopes and ring recoveries

Original language description

We analysed stable carbon (?13C) and nitrogen (?15N) isotope ratios in Marsh Warbler Acrocephalus palustris feathers sampled in Europe and Africa to assess non-breeding habitat selection and location of wintering grounds of different breeding populations. Feather ?13C values showed that Marsh Warblers occupy a biome dominated by C4 vegetation during the stopover in northeastern Africa, whereas C3 habitats are used during the complete moult in southern Africa. East European Marsh Warblers differed in their stable isotope profiles from other European regions, suggesting a certain level of population segregation in southern Africa. A dual-isotope assignment approach confirmed this difference and helped us restrict the autumn staging areas to lower elevations of the Ethiopian Highlands west of the Rift valley. Available ring recoveries, however, suggested high levels of population mixing both on migration through East Africa and in the final wintering grounds.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EG - Zoology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GA13-06451S" target="_blank" >GA13-06451S: Propojení fází ročního cyklu: význam sezónních interakcí pro ekologii tažných ptáků</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Acta Ornithologica

ISSN

0001-6454

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

49

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

193-200

UT code for WoS article

000350963900005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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