Lunar synchrony in the reproduction of the Moluccan Megapode Megapodius wallacei

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Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 382-388

  Baker, Gillian C ^a   Dekker, René W R J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIRD; EGG PRODUCTION; LUNAR CYCLE;

INDONESIA;

AVES; INVERTEBRATA; LUNAPHILIA; MEGAPODIIDAE; MEGAPODIUS WALLACEI;

EID: 0033910811     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.2000.tb04434.x     Document Type: Article

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