Body size variation in barnacle goose colonies: Evidence for local saturation of habitats

Norsk Polarinstitutt, Skrifter

Volumn , Issue 200, 1998, Pages 129-140

  Black, Jeffrey M ^a,b,c   Cooch, Evan G ^d,e   Loonen, Maarten J J E ^f   Drent, Rudolf H ^f   Owen, Myrfyn ^a  

^a WILDFOWL AND WETLANDS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e Henshaw Bldg   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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