The importance of rainfall to a cavity-nesting species

Ibis

Volumn 145, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 692-694

  Radford, Andrew N ^a   Du Plessis, Morné A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; NESTING; RAINFALL; TREEHOLE;

AVES;

EID: 0142155014     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1474-919X.2003.00198.x     Document Type: Article

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