Understanding the demography, movement and phenology of birds form the crucial basis for any species conservation action. Long-term (volunteer) effort of marking individual birds yielded a wealth of capture-mark-recapture data containing invaluable information about these processes. In this project we employ modern statistical methods to unearth information from diverse data sources to study long-term changes and spatial variations of demography, movement and phenology of many bird species in Switzerland and beyond.
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European Robin
Domain
Research
Unit
Population Biology
Topic
Ecology, Evolution, Migratory Birds
Habitat
alpine habitats, farmland, forest, meadows and pastures, rivers & streams, rocky terrain, semi-open farmland, settlements, wasteland, wetlands
Project start
2017
Project status
ongoing
Project management
Franziska Korner
Project region
Switzerland, Europe, Africa
Project team members
Unit
Population Biology
We study the populations and distribution of species and species communities, as well as the factors that cause their changes across space and time.
