The effect of intraspecific egg destruction on the strength of Marsh Wren eggs

Auk

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 599-607

  Picman, Jaroslav ^a   Pribil, Stanislav ^a   Picman, Anna K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISTOTHORUS PALUSTRIS; PASSERIFORMES; TROGLODYTES TROGLODYTES; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 0030456647     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4088980     Document Type: Article

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