Effects of egg type on depredation of artificial ground nests

Wilson Bulletin

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 129-136

  Yahner, Richard H ^a   Mahan, Carolyn G ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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