Body-mass dynamics of King Eiders during incubation

Auk

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 812-817

  Kellett, Dana K ^a,b   Alisauskas, Ray T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOMATERIA SPECTABILIS;

EID: 0033930426     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089610     Document Type: Article

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