Within-season and between-year variation in the structure of Common Eider broods

Condor

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 598-606

  Öst, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Body condition; Brood structure; Common Eider; Lone tending; Post hatch brood amalgamation; Somateria mollissima

Indexed keywords

SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA;

EID: 0344131902     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1370189     Document Type: Article

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