Effect of egg size on predation by white-footed mice

Wilson Bulletin

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 535-539

  Degraaf, R M ^a   Maier, T J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

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