Male sex bias in Eiders Somateria mollissima during spring migration into the Gulf of Finland

Ornis Fennica

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 137-142

  Kilpi, Mikael ^a   Öst, Markus ^b   Lehikoinen, Aleksi ^b   Vattulainen, Aarne ^c  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c HALIAS   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIGRATION; SEX RATIO; WATERFOWL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; GULF OF FINLAND;

ANAS; ANATIDAE; ANSER; AVES; SOMATERIA; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA;

EID: 0348195822     PISSN: 00305685     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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