Inter-island dispersal of the Mariana Common Moorhen: A recolonization by an endangered species

Wilson Bulletin

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 414-417

  Worthington, David J ^a,b  

^a Cmw of the Northern Mariana Islands   (Northern Mariana Islands)

^b U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; RECOLONIZATION;

NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS;

GALLINULA CHLOROPUS;

EID: 0031718222     PISSN: 00435643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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