What selective pressures have driven the evolution of deferred northward migration by juvenile waders?

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 325-330

  Hockey, Philip A R ^a   Turpie, Jane K ^a   Velásquez, Claudio R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; JUVENILE; MIGRATION; WADER;

EID: 0031713513     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3677117     Document Type: Article

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