Reproductive success is a misleading indicator of nest-site preferences in the Red-winged Blackbird

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 76, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2227-2234

  Pribil, Stanislav ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; HABITAT STRUCTURE; NEST SITE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SITE SELECTION;

AGELAIUS; AGELAIUS PHOENICEUS; AVES; TURDUS MERULA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032322187     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/z98-180     Document Type: Article

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