Opportunity of parentage and nest destruction in polygynandrous acorn woodpeckers, Melanerpes formidvorus

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1990, Pages 55-61

  Koenig, Walter D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACORN WOODPECKER; NEST DESTRUCTION; PARENTAGE; POLYGYNANDRY; WOODPECKER;

AVES; MELANERPES FORMICIVORUS;

EID: 0025597675     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/1.1.55     Document Type: Article

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