Do Artificial Nests Reveal Meaningful Patterns of Predation in Kansas Grasslands?

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 460-464

  Robel, Robert J ^a   Hughes, John P ^a   Keane, Timothy D ^a   Kemp, Kenneth E ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; COTURNIX JAPONICA; JAPONICA; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PHASIANIDAE; POACEAE; SPIZA; SPIZA AMERICANA;

EID: 0141501944     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1894/0038-4909(2003)048<0460:DANRMP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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