Different depredation rates between daylight and twilight placed artificial nests

Folia Zoologica

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 157-159

  Báldi, András ^a  

^a Institute and Museum of Military History Budapest   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Chicken egg; Experiment; Grassy dike side; Ground nest; Hungary; Plasticine egg

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEST; PREDATION; TWILIGHT;

HUNGARY;

EID: 0342733418     PISSN: 01397893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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