Subspecies-selective predation of snow petrels by skuas

Oikos

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 275-282

  Barbraud, Christophe ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SELECTION;

ANTARCTICA;

AVES; CATHARACTA; CATHARACTA MACCORMICKI; CICONIIFORMES; GALLUS GALLUS; PAGODROMA NIVEA;

EID: 0032817786     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546445     Document Type: Article

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