Is parental care a constraint on the habitat use of common Eider females?

Condor

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 22-26

  Bustnes, Jan Ove ^a  

^a Department of Arctic Ecology ^*  (Norway)

Author keywords

Common Eider; Habitat use; Norway; Parental care; Somateria mollissima

Indexed keywords

SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA;

EID: 0030050620     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369503     Document Type: Article

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