Dominance, age, and reproductive success in a complex society: A long-term study of the Mexican Jay

Auk

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 279-286

  Brown, Jerram L ^a   Brown, Esther R ^a   Sedransk, Joseph ^a,b   Ritter, Shannon ^a,c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APHELOCOMA ULTRAMARINA; AVES;

EID: 0030915352     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089168     Document Type: Article

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