Annual survival rates of female hooded mergansers and Wood Ducks in southeastern Missouri

Wilson Bulletin

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-6

  Dugger, Katie M ^a,b   Dugger, Bruce D ^a,b   Fredrickson, Leigh H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LONGEVITY; POPULATION ECOLOGY; SURVIVAL; WATERFOWL;

UNITED STATES;

AIX SPONSA; LOPHODYTES CUCULLATUS;

EID: 0033029294     PISSN: 00435643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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