A call for feather sampling

Auk

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 218-221

  Smith, Thomas B ^a   Marra, Peter P ^b   Webster, Michael S ^c   Lovette, Irby ^d   Gibbs, H Lisle ^e   Holmes, Richard T ^f   Hobson, Keith A ^g   Rohwer, Sievert ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Dartmouth College   (United States)

^g ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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EID: 0037225108     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4090162     Document Type: Note

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