Taxon cycles in the Lesser Antillean avifauna

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Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 49-59

  Ricklefs, R E ^a,b   Bermingham, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

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EID: 0033095739     PISSN: 00306525     EISSN: 1727947X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00306525.1999.9639749     Document Type: Article

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