Sources of variation in clutch size, egg size and clutch completion dates of Semipalmated plovers in Churchill, Manitoba

Condor

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 389-396

  Nol, Erica ^a   Blanken, Michèle Sullivan ^a,b   Flynn, Laura ^a,b  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Charadrius semipalmatus; climate; clutch completion dates; clutch size; egg size; female size; repeatability; Semipalmated Plover; shorebird; variability

Indexed keywords

CHARADRIUS SEMIPALMATUS; CICONIIFORMES;

EID: 0030982330     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369945     Document Type: Article

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