Body size variation and evolutionary ecology of eastern and western screech-owls

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 70-80

  Gehlbach, Frederick R ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASIO OTUS; OTUS ASIO; OTUS KENNICOTTII; PECOS; STRIGIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037360657     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1894/0038-4909(2003)048<0070:BSVAEE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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