Winter range expansion and relationships between landscape and morphometrics of midcontinent Lesser Snow Geese

Auk

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 851-862

  Alisauskas, Ray T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEN ROSSII; HABITAT; INTROGRESSIVE HYBRIDIZATION; MAIZE; MARSH; MIGRATION; PHENOTYPIC SELECTION; POPULATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RICE; SEASHORE; SELECTION; WINTER;

HABITAT USE; MORPHOMETRY; RANGE EXPANSION; WATERFOWL; WINTER;

UNITED STATES;

ANAS; ANSER; ANSER ROSSII; ANSER SP.; ANSERIFORMES; AVES; CHEN; CHEN CAERULESCENS; CHEN CAERULESCENS CAERULESCENS; CHEN ROSSII; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0031785274     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089504     Document Type: Article

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