Experiments on competition between Great and Blue Tit: Effects on Blue Tit reproductive success and population processes

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Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 39-48

  Dhondt, André A ^a   Adriaensen, Frank ^b  

^a Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

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EID: 0033096422     PISSN: 00306525     EISSN: 1727947X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00306525.1999.9639748     Document Type: Article

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