White-breasted Cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo, breeding season timing and its control factors at a seasonally constant Kenyan lake

Ostrich

Volumn 72, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 149-158

  Childress, R Brooks ^a   Bennun, Leon A ^a,b  

^a National Museums of Kenya   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0035457447     PISSN: 00306525     EISSN: 1727947X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2989/00306520109485308     Document Type: Article

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