Energy constraints on incubating common eiders in the Canadian Arctic (East Bay, Southampton Island, Nunavut)

Arctic

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 425-429

  Bottitta, Grace E ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033368599     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14430/arctic947     Document Type: Article

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