Life in the slow lane: Reproductive life history of the White-browed Scrubwren, an Australian endemic

Auk

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 479-489

  Magrath, Robert D ^a   Leedman, Ashley W ^a   Gardner, Janet L ^a   Giannasca, Anthony ^a   Nathan, Anjeli C ^a   Yezerinac, Stephen M ^a   Nicholls, James A ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIFE HISTORY; PASSERINE; PHYLOGENETICS; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SPATIAL VARIATION;

AUSTRALIA;

CORVIDA; PARDALOTIDAE; PASSERIFORMES; SERICORNIS FRONTALIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034052938     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089728     Document Type: Article

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