Patterns in the geographic ranges of the world's woodpeckers

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Volumn 140, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 626-638

  Blackburn, Tim M ^a   Gaston, Kevin J ^b   Lawton, John H ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIRD; HOME RANGE;

PICIDAE;

EID: 0031663896     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.1998.tb04708.x     Document Type: Article

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