Impact of nest-harvesting on the reproductive success of black-nest swiftlets Aerodramus maximus

Wildlife Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 33-36

  Tompkins, Daniel M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apodidae; Edible nest; Harvesting; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

AERODRAMUS; AERODRAMUS MAXIMUS; APODIDAE; AVES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032999516     PISSN: 09096396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2981/wlb.1999.006     Document Type: Article

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