Transect surveys of columbid nests on Puerto Rico, Vieques, and Culebra islands

Condor

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 332-342

  Rivera Milán, Frank F ^a,b  

^a Stop 3 ^*  (Argentina)

^b U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Columbids; Food; Nest density; Nest detection probability; Predators; Rainfall; Transect surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035016844     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/0010-5422(2001)103[0332:TSOCNO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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