Survival, productivity, and abundance in a Wilson's Warbler population

Auk

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 354-366

  Chase, Mary K ^a,b   Nur, Nadav ^a   Geupel, Geoffrey R ^a  

^a PRBO CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; WILSONIA PUSILLA;

EID: 0030802443     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089238     Document Type: Article

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