Correcting eggshell indices of raptor eggs for hole size and eccentricity

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Volumn 141, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 85-90

  Nygård, Torgeir ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EGGSHELL; MEASUREMENT METHOD; RAPTOR;

EID: 0345130084     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.1999.tb04266.x     Document Type: Article

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