Nest spacing in relation to settlement time in colonial cliff swallows

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 47-55

  Brown, Charles R ^a   Brown, Mary Bomberger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIAL ORGANISM; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; NEST SITE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

PETROCHELIDON PYRRHONOTA;

EID: 0033977033     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1277     Document Type: Article

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